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Buildings Quotes

My idea is to fill an intersection with color. That will include the road and the sidewalk and up the building, so there's a cubic volume of color in the intersection wedged between four corners and four buildings.

Jessica Stockholder

Building Road Color Buildings Will

In New York City, when they develop something, they never use the old buildings. It's so wasteful. Why not use what's there?

New York City Buildings New Why Old

I've seen beautiful art on the sides of buildings. I've seen beautiful art in museums. I've seen beautiful art in galleries. Beautiful art is everywhere.

John Mellencamp

Beautiful Art Buildings Museums Seen

We were already, in 1981, bemoaning the fact that people were using certain accessorised ideas and images that they connected with us - sort of strange buildings and neo-fascist regimes and the 'dark side' of human culture.

Genesis P-Orridge

Culture People Ideas Buildings Dark

When I started my own practice, I was criticized, not because I was doing product design but because, like Le Corbusier, I was insisting on paintings in all of my buildings. I would paint wall murals in the houses that I designed, just as he did in the '20s and '30s.

Practice Design Doing Buildings Wall

I've always thought Blues Point Tower is one of my best buildings and I stand by that.

Best Thought Stand Buildings Blues

Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.

Architecture People Buildings Way

There is a backlash against me and everyone who has done buildings that have movement and feeling.

Me Buildings Feeling Done Movement

The more sophisticated we get, the more advanced our buildings and vehicles become, the more vulnerable we are.

Stephen Ambrose

Buildings Become More Get Our

People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

People View Buildings Pleasant Like

Even on a personal note, my dressing table downstairs is crowded with things, like a mini landscape. It's a city with buildings and towers and roads. There's a pool and a little park. When I move something around it becomes a different tableau.

Roads City Landscape Buildings Table

I was primarily interested in people, and people in action, so that I did nothing photographically in the sense of doing buildings for their own sake or a still life or anything like that.

Life People Action Doing Buildings

I did a cake for the 60th birthday of Elton John, for Britney Spears' 27th birthday and for the 'Circus' album she put out - the cake had circus themes. I prepared a cake for a surprise 82nd birthday event for the architect Frank Gehry; the cake was comprised of mini-replicas of his buildings.

Birthday Cake Surprise Buildings She

The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns; for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for buildings can be given back to her up aloft.

Nature Great Buildings Back She Up

I want to do very useful buildings and I would like to find a method of producing these buildings through our technology because I think that this is the only way that we will gain wonderful environment easily in the future.

Minoru Yamasaki

Future Technology Think Buildings

There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space.

Space Design You Buildings Concrete

NASA is an utterly fascinating place, and the fact that the buildings look so anonymous almost makes it more fascinating. You walk by a generic office-park-looking building, and you have no idea what's going on inside.

Walk Building You Buildings Look

I don't like to talk about sustainability, because sometimes I see green buildings that don't appear any different from those in the past.

Past Green Buildings Sometimes Talk

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.

Art Architecture Speak Buildings

I base jumped off one of the highest buildings in the world.

Felix Baumgartner

World Buildings Off Highest Base

I want to show that drama doesn't lie only in blood and destroyed buildings but in daily life, in ordinary human beings.

Life Daily Lie Daily Life Buildings

Don't say 'the White House wants.' Buildings can't want.

Donald Rumsfeld

Buildings House White Say Want

From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily as sentences.

Christopher Alexander

Nature Character Thoughts Buildings

I wanted to be an architect. I used to draw houses and buildings and construct buildings on my own.

Buildings My Own Own Used Architect

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