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Quotes About Structure

I'm painting an idea not an ideal. Basically I'm trying to paint a structured painting full of controlled, and therefore potent, emotion.
~ Unknown
What I try to do is the art of building, and the art of building is the art of construction; it is not only about forms and shapes and images.
~ Peter Zumthor
Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.
~ Julia Morgan
If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.
~ Arne Jacobsen
Architecture is art, nothing else.
~ Philip Johnson
Architecture is the king or queen of the arts.
~ Gaetano Pesce
Among the planets of the arts, architecture is the dark side of the moon.
~ Unknown
Ornamentation is the principal part of architecture, considered as a subject of fine art.
~ John Ruskin
Being an art form, verse cannot be "free" in the sense of having no limitations or guiding principle.
~ William Carlos Williams
Art's supposed to build logic structures.
~ Lawrence Weiner
Boxing is so loose and flowy, and martial arts is more stiff, and about strength and structure.
~ Taylor Lautner
Art is nothing without form.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Both science and art have to do with ordered complexity.
~ Lancelot Law Whyte
Most great art is freedom within form. Without form, we are amateurs, without freedom, we are robots.
~ Donald Miller
Formal art is essentially rational.
~ Sol LeWitt
Architecture approaches nearer than any other art to being irrevocable because it is so difficult to get rid of.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
I realized the structure in a collection is how they're put together. Structuring the collection became the art of it for me. Because the stories had all been written.
~ Jess Walter
At its heart, music is all higher mathematics.
~ Mos Def
With his night-cap and his night-shirt tatters, He botches up the loop-holes in the structure of the world.
~ Heinrich Heine
When the form's in place, everything within it can be pure feeling.
~ Chris Kraus, I Love Dick
Classic means standard as opposed to Romantic: form before meaning as opposed to meaning before form. It grows from inside out while Romantic grows from outside in.
~ Ned Rorem
I've always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.
~ James Polshek
Ellen ran their home precisely the way
~ Danielle Steel
The powerful and the rest of society will often disagree about which set of institutions should remain in place and which ones should be changed.
~ Daron AcemoÄŸlu