Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion history romance and art would be useless.
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.
I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.
No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.
Art is the stored honey of the human soul gathered on wings of misery and travail.
Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
So vast is art so narrow human wit.
Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.
There is a powerful need for symbolism and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart.
Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture or it isn't real.
The job of buildings is to improve human relations: architecture must ease them not make them worse.
The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how these activities can be given added value.
Architecture is my work and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks we must participate in the political struggle.
The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.
The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building or architecture is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person and in the end they unite.
Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.
Men are fair and they have learned not to personalize anger - they can disagree with you and argue to the bone but afterward they still consider you a nice person with whom the underlying human relationship need not be altered.
When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.
I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger rage fear sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that.
We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.