Quotes & Sayings About Experiencing Architecture

Apathy is a rational reaction to a system that no longer represents, hears or addresses the vast majority of people. — Russell Brand

Sure it all seemed a little silly now but all the old antipathies about unfair penalties were still there just beneath the surface. — Liane Moriarty

I want to remember it all, the good times and the bad times, the late nights, the boozing, the dancing into dawns, and all the great and not-so-great people I met and loved in those years ... — Ava Gardner

Think as I think," said a man, "or you are abominably wicked; you are a toad." And after I thought of it, I said, "I will, then, be a toad. — Stephen Crane

When experiencing a work of art, a curious exchange takes place; the work projects its aura, and we project our own emotions and precepts on the work. The melancholy in Michelangelo's architecture is fundamentally the viewer's sense of his/her own melancholy enticed by the authority of the work. Enigmatically, we encounter ourselves in the work. — Juhani Pallasmaa

You might say that when you step inside, you're entering a honorific space, but that's something totally different than experiencing it. And in architecture the experience comes first. That has the deepest effect on us. — Thom Mayne

It's a great life if you don't weaken — John Buchanan

My mother's capacity for happiness was a small soup bone salting a large pot. — Lorrie Moore