“Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.”
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“It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.”
“Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.”
“My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.”
“An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.”
“The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.”
“I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.”
“One of the most amazing things about mathematics is the people who do math aren't usually interested in application, because mathematics itself is truly a beautiful art form. It's structures and patterns, and that's what we love, and that's what we get off on.”
“Architecture is the art of how to waste space.”
“Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.”
“I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.”
“The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.”
“The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.”
“The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person and in the end they unite.”
“Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.”
“The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.”
“Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.”
“Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.”
“If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.”
“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
“An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.”
“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”
“Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.”
“Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.”