Top 1200 Japanese Architecture Quotes & Sayings - Page 15
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Last updated on April 21, 2025.
The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes.
People talk about Japanese kids as being inward-looking. But my experience is that if you offer them an opportunity, they'll take it.
I can make chicken curry, rice, kheema... I am a foodie and enjoy varied cuisines. My favourites are Korean and Japanese.
What I always say is that Japanese are like willow. We can be bent easily, but once you try to break us, it would not be so easy.
The Senkaku Islands are an integral part of Japanese territory based on international law as well as in the context of our history.
I want to explore my design philosophy in different mediums, and I'm very interested in architecture.
The Highway Code can't be that difficult to understand, and yet my brain seems to treat it as a set of nuclear fission instructions in Old Japanese.
I love the Japanese director Shohei Imamura. His masterpiece in 1979 called, the English title was 'Vengeance is Mine.'
Architecture is a negotiated art, and it's highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required.
The problem with digital architecture is that an algorithm can produce endless variations, so an architect has many choices.
Look closely at the Japanese; they draw admirably and yet in them you will see life outdoors and in the sun without shadows.
At the root of Japanese manufacturing lies a feminine delicacy and shyness as well as a childlike curiosity and fantasy-filled worldview.
London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design.
I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.
I don't separate architecture, design, or culture. What's more important is a language of creativity that carries meaning.
Maybe '13 Assassins' is the mortal agony and death rattle of a Japanese film industry that has abandoned its creative talent.
Angkor is perhaps the greatest of Man's essays in rectangular architecture that has yet been brought to life.
The paintings have only ever been ways of exploring architecture. I don't see them as art.
Architecture is the simplest means of articulating time and space, of modulating reality, of engendering dreams.
When I am listening to Vivaldi or Japanese music or making spaghetti at 3 in the morning and realize that I don't have the proper sauce for it, fame is of no use.
In Hollywood, I was never restricted to just one Asian character. I've been cast as a Chinese, a Vietnamese, a Korean, a Japanese and a Cambodian.
Architecture has been male-dominated forever, and I am a grateful beneficiary of the women's movement.
When I went to Japan, I was with Kashima Antlers. Very good results were produced with that team as I aimed to develop Japanese football.
The concept of architecture as analogous to landscape is something that has interested me for a long time.
Trying to describe something musical is like dancing to architecture, it's really difficult.
You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony
If I were asked to explain the Japanese spirit, I would say it is wild cherry blossoms glowing in the morning sun!
The Japanese, if I understand them, are masters of the unsaid and the unstated, of subtlety and ambiguity, all of which constitute powerful stimulants to the imagination.
We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle - even if he can afford more.
a perfect piece of architecture kindles that aimless reverie, which bears the soul we know not whither.
I love the Japanese director Shohei Imamura. His masterpiece in 1979 called, the English title was 'Vengeance is Mine'.
As the interned American citizens of Japanese descent learned, the Bill of Rights provided them with little protection when it was needed.
The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.
The greatest problem in Japanese politics over the last two decades is that we put off what needed to be done. We have to overcome that.
Japanese orchestras are generally playing at quite a high level on the first day of rehearsal, but they don't improve very much from there.
I think architecture should be a stage, not something too material - more of an environment, not a product.
A lot of the characters I play on Japanese shows are actually acted in Japan by women. I don't know what that says about me.
The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.
Architecture is the story of how we see ourselves. It is the architect's job to service everyday life.
I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.
I think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that. I dream it sometimes.
Are not the worst examples of architecture to be found in private enterprise in cheap jerry-built homes?
If I failed in acting, I wanted to have a backup, thus I chose architecture. I learnt painting as well.
Drawing architecture is a "schizoid" act: it involves reducing the world to a piece of paper.
The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.
I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.
If Japanese cannot have new babies quick enough, then the government should start importing workers faster.
I don't believe that classical architecture is enough to engage people anymore. They say: 'So what else is new?'
The show is called The Office and while it focuses on the people, the architecture of the space is very important.
I think America has the best assholes in the world. I defy the Belgians or the Japanese to produce something like a Donald Trump.
Architecture should be rooted in the past, and yet be part of our own time and forward looking.
For me, I think the most exciting thing in architecture is the re-emergence of the locally-focused architect.
I hate the marketing side of business where, 'Oh let's do a shoe for this clientele or for the Chinese or for the Japanese.' We're doing the same products for everyone.
I still have a Japanese passport. I haven't become an American citizen, and I am worried about getting deported every day.
Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.
The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.
the Japanese school year begins in spring ... so mothers can send off their children as cherry blossoms fall from the branches.
Truly great architecture always transcends its stated function, sometimes in unanticipated ways.
I own a home in Kyoto, Japan actually on the temple on grounds in Nanzenji that is going to become a Japanese art museum.
Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.
