That Moorish architecture is all over the place, of course. It affects me everywhere I see it, as it does so many people. But Brand Library was a special place to me, and I know I’ve paid homage to it many times in my drawings. – Jim Woodring
Architecture is a negotiated art, and it’s highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required. – Thom Mayne
But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean. – Michael Tilson Thomas
I’d been to Stourhead and was inspired by the perfect parity between architecture and art; in fact, the architecture is the art. I wrote a piece called ‘Not Sculpture Park,’ because most of these things become car parks for bought-in sculpture. The artists should be working with the site, not just plonking pieces down. – Charles Jencks
I suppose I’m trying to build an architecture that’s as timeless as possible, although we’re all creatures of our age. – David Chipperfield
I always wanted to be an actor, but I always loved design, and growing up in New Orleans there was such great style, great architecture. I would decorate my little apartment in New York over and over again, because it only had a couple of rooms. And I did it for friends and family on the side just for fun. – Bryan Batt
Britain loves a bargain, but you don’t get good, lasting architecture on the cheap. – David Chipperfield
In a way I spend my entire life stealing from everything – from the past, from cities I love, from where I grew up – grabbing things, taking not only from architecture but from Italy, art, writing, poetry, music. – Renzo Piano