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17 quotations in Art, Literature, & Music, Architecture in English
"A great building . . . must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed, and in the end must be unmeasurable."
Louis Kahn
"A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe—and fifty times, it is a beautiful catastrophe."
Le Corbusier , Swiss architect and painter.
"All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space."
Philip Johnson
"Architecture is frozen music."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , German poet, playwright, novelist, and scientist
"Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light."
Le Corbusier , Swiss architect and painter.
"I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?"
Philip Johnson
"I'm about four skyscrapers behind."
Philip Johnson
"Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep."
Le Corbusier , Swiss architect and painter.
"The home should be the treasure chest of living."
Le Corbusier , Swiss architect and painter.
"[Buildings don't] exist to be pinned, like brooches, on the front of bigger structures to which they bear only the most distant of relationships."
Paul Goldberger