Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.
Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.
What's interesting about architects is, we always have tried to justify beauty by looking to nature, and arguably, beautiful architecture has always been looking at a model of nature.
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.
The big thing on the horizon for me is video. I feel like it's the closest thing to a perfect mix between music and design, because it has the motion and it has the dynamics of music, while at the same time having the aesthetic components of design. It's a nice mix.
Architecture is a code. It's a pure code, derived from the dimensions of nature.
When I was a student looking at Leonardo DaVinci and all those guys - Italian, Dutch, or whatever - it's incredible how each piece of the painting fits to the main theme that they want to express.
What I dream of is an art of balance.
The detail is as important as the essential is. When it is inadequate, it destroys the whole outfit.
In every picture there should be shade as well as light.
Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.
I think the pleasure of form is that you have a companion with you besides all the poetry you have ever read.
The beauty of a face is not a separate quality but a relation or proportion of qualities to each other.
In the art of design, color is to form what verse is to prose,--a more harmonious and luminous vehicle of the thought.
Any work of architecture that does not express serenity is a mistake.
Design, whether it's on your body or in your home, is the same thing. It's mixing different colors, different textures, and unexpected patterns - elements that you wouldn't often put together in an interesting way.
My drawings are another kind of music for me...they relax me and I think they all connect somehow.
It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.
You keep on balancing and balancing and balancing until the picture wins, because then the subject's turned into the picture.
There are universal shapes to which everybody is subconsciously conditioned and to which they can respond if their conscious control does not shut them off.
Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
Copy, art, and typography should be seen as a living entity; each element integrally related, in harmony with the whole, and essential to the execution of an idea.
My designs are free-flowing in their approach, and I want to create an ambience of warmth and tranquility.
Proportion is that agreeable harmony between the several parts of a building, which is the result of a just and regular agreement of them with each other; the height to the width, this to the length, and each of these to the whole.
Just as Pollock used the drip to meld process and product, Richter 'found' and used the smudge and the blur to ravish the eye, creating works of psychic and physical power.
