“Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.” – – the narrator in Slaughter House Five by Kurt Vonnegut jr. [1922-2007] American author
quotes on art and architecture Archives - Page 3 of 3 - studio of Glenn Williams Architect NCARB
“I could count twenty such
On twice your fingers, and not leave this town,
Who strive–you don’t know how the others strive
To paint a little thing like that you smeared
Carelessly passing with your robes afloat,–
Yet do much less, so much less, Someone says,
(I know his name, no matter)–so much less!
Well, less is more, Lucrezia: I am judged.”
from the poem Andrea del Sarto by Robert Browning [1812-1889] English poet
Less is more.” – – Mies van der Rohe [1886-1969] German American architect
“Less is a bore.” – – Robert Venturi [b.1925] American architect
“More is more.” – – Tony Duquette [1914-1999] American artist
“More is a bore.”- – Bjarke Ingels [b. 1974] Danish architect
“Less and less is more and more.” – – Tom Wolfe [b. 1931] American writer (I think this is attributable to Wolfe though I can’t locate the source. If he didn’t write or utter it he ought to have.)
“Form follows function.” – – Louis Sullivan [1856-1924] American architect
“Form follows fiasco.’ – – Peter Blake [1920-2006] German American architect, critic, editor, author
“Form follows fashion.” – – anonymous postmodern architects
“To make the simple complex with the useless is both futile and nihilistic.” – – Carlo Aymonino [1926-2010] Italian architect
“You only have one idea in your life.” – – Frank Gehry [b. 1929] Canadian American architect “Everything should be made as simple as possible.” – – T. S. Eliot [1888-1965] American British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic and “one of the twentieth century’s major poets.” “No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.” – – John Ruskin [1819–1900] English art critic of the Victorian era, also an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, a prominent social thinker and philanthropist
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