Quotes about art
art space media
She had a pretty face, but her head was up in space. Avril Lavigne
artist passionate exploration
The scientist and the artist are both passionate about their exploration. What leads to my work is that I'm equally an artist and an engineer. Arthur Ganson
artist elements behind-the-scenes
I'm so used to being behind the scenes. I didn't really want to be front and center. One of the elements of my relationships with the artists I work with is that I'm not front and center, and they are. Arthur Fogel
artist high-heels typical
The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers. Arthur Erickson
artist order forgotten
The essentially unchangeable established order of things slowly disappeared and was forgotten for a while completely.
artist japan europe
The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.
artist culture exploitation
We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures.
artist japan littles
We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist.
artist other-cultures incapacity
Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms.
art enemy architecture
Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.
art expression design
The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.
artist japan europe
Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind.
artist america management
Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over.
artist gone modernism
Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.
art luxury easy
We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity.
artist deeds-done action
Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.
art energy building
Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.
artist choices research
We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward.
artist likes responsible
The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process.
artist other-cultures conservation
I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.
artist ecosystems fundamentals
No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems.
artist america goal
With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.
artist names historical
The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.
artist world culture
This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the world.
art brave-new-world america
The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts.
artist looks advantage
Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly.
art light energy
Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.
artist film building
You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.
artist engineering cities
Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.
art inspiration expression
Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.
art men important
To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. Arthur Conan Doyle
art numbers able
It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognise out of a number of facts which are incidental and which are vital.
art fall wrestling
We tottered together upon the brink of the fall. I have some knowledge, however, of baritsu, or the Japanese system of wrestling, which has more than once been very useful to me. I slipped through his grip, and he with a horrible scream kicked madly for a few seconds and clawed the air with both his hands.