Quotes About Construction

I think it's good that I had some experience of the real world before I became successful. You know, having to get up in the morning and going to work in construction.

When you operate in an overbuilt metropolis, you have to hack your way with a meat axe," said Moses in response to the new challenges. "I'm just going to keep right on building. You do the best you can to stop it.

A leader of the state legislature, Virginia Peterson, opposed the path of Interstate 215 around the southeast quadrant of Salt Lake City on the grounds that it would take the land and house of a constituent who happened to be a famous local artist. The artist, Ms. Peterson claimed, depended on the particular light on the property for his painting. She was able to delay construction for a decade.

More attractive metaphors create more popular buildings.

Shortly, some pipeline worker or shipfitter would slow down.

I am heartily sorry for it, he being a most capable, obliging man, speaking all the languages of the Levant and excellent English too - might have built the Tower of Babel singlehanded.

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the city's metro—the Metrorrey—twenty miles long, thirty-one stations, and more lines under construction. Who knew Monterrey had a rapid transit system?

According to the laws of nature, one should destroy the other, but in love neither good nor evil, there is neither construction nor destruction, there is merely movement. And love changes the laws of nature.

I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity.

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.

An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.

The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.

What gives me hope is art - it's the most powerful weapons ever created. It's a weapon of mass construction.

The construction itself is an art, its application to the world an evil parasite.

Abstract art: a construction site for high fashion, for advertising, for furniture.

The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.

My first job in construction paid my way through art school. I was building to pay my bills.

Despite the persistent image of the architect as a heroic loner erecting monumental edifices through sheer force of will, the building art has always been a highly cooperative enterprise.

The modern human has mastered the art of building toxic homes and cities.

With Michelangelo anatomical science is transformed into music. With him the human body is architectonic matter for the construction of dreams.

Destruction is as valid an artistic statement as construction. Both statements echo the model of the society we live in. The only invalid art is utopian

Architecture is a negotiated art, and it's highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required.