Top 1200 Organic Architecture Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

All life depends on organic reactions. A favorite saying.

'Organic' doesn't mean what people think it means.

I'm really into natural and organic products.

Make sure that everything you produce and create is organic to you.

There's no buying a greasy breakfast in L.A. - it's all organic juices.

It is, I believe, justifiable to make the generalization that anything an organic chemist can synthesize can be made without him. All he does is increase the probability that given reactions will 'go.' So it is quite reasonable to assume that given sufficient time and proper conditions, nucleotides, amino acids, proteins, and nucleic acids will arise by reactions that, though less probable, are as inevitable as those by which the organic chemist fulfills his predictions. So why not self-duplicating virus-like systems capable of further evolution?

Look at an interview as an organic part of building a relationship.

Organic farming is personal.

I wanted to be a veterinarian, but slipped up when I hit organic chemistry.

The best designs of all are organic, evolving from the subtleties of the ground they inhabit.

If I was president, all the food in the grocery stores would be organic.

A nation is an organic thing.

Architecture is invention.

I have a garden in my backyard that's completely organic, which I'm very proud of.

Let's get government support for farmers to make the transition to organic.

We must not tamper with the organic motion of the soul.

Architecture is politics.

I'm sticking to the script, I'm putting that organic feeling back in the game.

I'm allergic to chemicals in food so I eat only organic foods.

I don't want to do something unless it feels organic.

I'm down to work with anyone as long as it's an organic collaboration.

When you work really hard, and it's organic and together, you can have more fun.

I think it modern society as a whole, but definitively in Brazil, spaces are so well divided and there are so many barriers, and so many divisions, so many lines and so many borderlines, basically telling you that you should be here but not here. This is my space and this is your space, and this is expressed very dramatically in architecture, we have a very kind of aggressive, almost medieval concept for architecture, which is basically keeping people out. So you get high walls, fences, and electric fences, and divisions like that.

I realized that the way I approached architecture was with a somewhat fashion brain. That didn't get me very good marks in school, because everyone thought fashion was lightweight. In architecture they say, "Well, why is the door pink? Where does it go? What does the pink mean? What does it symbolize? All the other doors are beige, why is that one pink?" I was like, "Well, it's pink because it's pretty."

New security architecture is being laid down in the Northern Middle East, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, in which pro-Iranian governments are consolidating their grip on the territory and they're backed by Russia, to a large degree. And this has caused great grief and consternation in Saudi Arabia and amongst many of the United States' allies, Israel, the Gulf countries, Turkey, because they see this new architecture of security and Iranian influence and Russian influence as something that's very bad for them.

Each moment life is new and you have to respond from your inner newness, you have to be available to the new as the new. And you have to respond, not out of your knowledge, but out of your present awareness. Only then life works, otherwise life stops working. If your life is not working, remember, it is the ego that is hindering, the mechanical has encroached upon the organic. To be free from the mechanical is to be in God, because it is to be in the organic unity of existence.

If you do just one thing to change the world, go organic.

I'm going for something very raw and organic.

When I'm home, I cook my own dinner, all organic.

Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.

There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness.

For the organic food, the less it's designed, the better it is

I love architecture.

I'm still the weirdo who enjoys taking organic chemistry.

Education is an organic necessity of a human being.

I want some time without you organic life forms.

I'm a traditional singer-songwriter. I have a more organic sound.

You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.

I liked science. I wasn't mathematically oriented, so I became an organic chemist.

I've always been interested, - if you look back at my work from the beginning, really - I've always been interested in the idea of the artificial landscape. Reforming the landscape. Architecture being a method of reforming the earth's surface. We reshape the earth's surface, from architecture to paving streets, to parking lots and buildings that are really reforming the surface of the earth. Reforming nature, taking over what we find. And we're mushing it around and remaking a new earth - or, what we used to call Terra Nova.

When I tour, I stuff fridges full of organic food and stick to that.

The healthiest companies are always characterized by organic talent development.

I've been blessed to have enough to buy organic and have a house in Tahoe.

Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children. That is simply good politics. He will not understand what you have to say about architecture most of the time. An architect of ability should be able to tell a client what he wants. Most of the time a client never knows what he wants.

Rather than asking architecture to be more interdisciplinary - a perennial issue within the discipline - I am suggesting that other disciplines might exploit the powers of architecture and urbanism. When addressing urgent situations, whether it's the depletion of the rainforest or abuse of labor, well-meaning people are working with tools, like standards, that seem like very blunt instruments. I am suggesting that spatial variables that are underexploited in governance might add to that repertoire.

What I resist is techniques. I find techniques very problematic. So when critics talk about my work in those terms, I find that they miss the condition. I am comfortable with the notion of pattern and ornament as a system of organization, [but] for me it acts as a textile. So it's not about pattern, but the notion of architecture through the lens of textile, rather than architecture through the lens of brick and mortar.

Gardening imparts an organic perspective on the passage of time.

All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it.

In America the cohesion was a matter of choice and will. But in Europe it was organic.

I always have a will to write. It's organic to me.

If it doesn't feel organic to the audience, you gotta trust your gut.

When I was in architecture school, rather than giving us drafting boards and t-squares and lead pencils and stuff they gave us all the same tools that places like Digital Domain and ILM used to make features films or special effects. They gave us all these digital tools like Alias and Mya and Soft Image and all these kind of high-end computers, so I came out of architecture school knowing how to use all that stuff. And I started making short films at night.

I hike and make sure everything I eat is organic.

I don't always buy organic food. It is more expensive.

Provision as much pure and organic food as you can, and let the rest go by.

Negro music has touched America because it is the melody of the soul joined with the rhythm of the machine. It is in two part time; tears in the heart; movement of the legs, torso arms and head. The music of the era of construction; innovating. It floods the body and heart; it floods the USA and its floods the world. The jazz is more advanced than the architecture. If architecture were at the point reached by jazz, it would be an incredible spectacle.

The transition from soccer to fashion was an organic one.

The whole idea of performing before an audience is fun and organic.

I can't describe how I make a film. It's organic.

Be authentic and organic. It can't be forced or it won't work. And most importantly, have fun.