Joshua Prince-Ramus Quotes

The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye.

Some people think architecture is about the genius sketch; I don't. Great architecture is a collaboration among a lot of people over a long period of time.

A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.

A building has integrity, just as a man and just as seldom! It must be true to its own idea, have its own form, and serve its own purpose!

Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder.

With everything that I design, from a church to a plate to skyscraper to a spoon. I am always thinking about voluptuous volumes and spaces.

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

Architecture is the beginning of something because it's - if you're not involved in first principles, if you're not involved in the absolute, the beginning of that generative process, it's cake decoration.

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.

I am finally getting the chance to build large structures and break preconceptions that my designs are just sculptures for people to be in. But my work always comes down to the human scale.

When you make new musicals, you have the great freedom and the great burden that it can be changed.

I don't know any architects that I respect who don't have their own voice. I think the difference between architecture and the other arts is your immersion in reality.

When an architect is asked what his best building is, he usually answers, "The next one."

Clearly, if a building is not functionally and technically in order, then it isn't architecture either, it's just a building.

The dynamics of film directing and fashion design - in the ways that I've done it - were not dissimilar.

I am but an architectural composer.

Everything I do, whether it's producing or signing an artist, always starts with the songs. When I'm listening, I'm looking for a balance that you could see in anything. Whether it's a great painting or a building or a sunset.

Basically, the way I do it is I get to work with a bunch of people; get a bunch of great people together, and you'll be able to get something cool on the other side.

I think a lot of people have the Frank Lloyd Wright model in their brains. The architect comes in with this act of creation and lays it down, and that's it. But that's not me.

I actually don't have a great surplus of ideas. Some evolve very slowly, over many years, but I sort of trust that all of the interesting ones will become something that I eventually end up doing.

A building is no good if someone's got to explain to you why it's good. You can't say you don't know enough about architecture - that's ridiculous. It's got to work on many levels.

A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.

At Pixar, we do sequels only when we come up with a great idea, and we always strive to be different than the original.

If I weren't involved with food, I'd be working in architecture. Design is that critical to me.