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

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"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"I call architecture frozen music."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"All but universally, human architecture values front elevations over back entrances, public spaces over private. Danny Jessup says that this aspect of architecture is also a reflection of human nature, that most people care more about their appearance than they do about their souls."

Dean Koontz, American Author

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"We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward."

Arthur Erickson, Canadian Architect

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"There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Architecture, Clouds, Rules

"The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English Poet

Architecture, Infinity

"It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect."

John Ruskin, English Writer

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"In architecture the pride of man his triumph over gravitation his will to power assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"If you put enough closets together, you have enough space for a room. If you put enough rooms together, you have enough room for a house. If you put enough houses together, you have space for a town, then a city, then a nation, then a world."

David Levithan, American Author

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"Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?"

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"Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world."

Change

"Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se."

Quality

"It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act."

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

Architecture

"Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make."

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"The details are details. They make the product. The connections, the connections, the connections. It will in the end be these details that give the product its life."

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"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."

"I call architecture frozen music."

"I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead."

"All but universally, human architecture values front elevations over back entrances, public spaces over private. Danny Jessup says that this aspect of architecture is also a reflection of human nature, that most people care more about their appearance than they do about their souls."

"We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward."

"There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds."

"The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable."

"It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect."

"In architecture the pride of man his triumph over gravitation his will to power assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms."

"If you put enough closets together, you have enough space for a room. If you put enough rooms together, you have enough room for a house. If you put enough houses together, you have space for a town, then a city, then a nation, then a world."

Explore more quotes by Charles Eames

"Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?"

"Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world."

"Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se."

"It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act."

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

"Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make."

"Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design."

"We work because it's a chain reaction, each subject leads to the next."

"Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic."

"The details are details. They make the product. The connections, the connections, the connections. It will in the end be these details that give the product its life."