Every now and then you need something to distract you from many of your mundane affairs or for that matter daily routines. Quotes are something which can provide a little break and help you de-stress, motivate and even force you to laugh a loud! Also, these concise sentences of wisdom can spark an 'idea' which can change your life forever! Here are few quotes design related quotes that just might 'awaken' the missing 'spark' in you. Hope you'll enjoy reading them:
“Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.” - Frank Gehry
“Architecture begins where engineering ends.” – Walter Gropius
“To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.” - Le Corbusier
“There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.” - Edwin Lutyens
“I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?” - Philip Johnson
“The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all the truth of their habits from the remains of their monuments or from their domestic relics.” - Honore de Balzac
“Architecture is inhabited sculpture” - Constantin Brancusi
“We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.” - Bill Bryson
“It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value. Acquaintance with grief turns out to be one of the more unusual prerequisites of architectural appreciation. We might, quite aside from all other requirements, need to be a little sad before buildings can properly touch us.” ― Alain de Botton
“We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both.” ― Karl Lagerfeld
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