Hope is an adventure, a going forward, a confident search for a rewarding life.
In fact, all kinds of men, and not merely architects, can recognize a good piece of work.
Architects should be educated, skillful with the pencil, instructed in geometry, know much history, have followed the philosophers with attention, understand music, have some knowledge of medicine, know the opinions of the jurists, and be acquainted with astronomy and the theory of the heavens
Architecture depends on Order, Arrangement, Eurythmy, Symmetry , Propriety , and Economy.
Architect's designs must refer to the unquestionable perfection of the body's symmetry and proportions. If a building is to create a sense of eurythmia, it is essential that it mirrors these natural laws of harmony and beauty
In accordance with the foregoing investigations on mathematical principles, let bronze vessels be made, proportionate to the size of the theatre, and let them be so fashioned that, when touched, they may produce with one another the notes of the fourth, the fifth, and so on up the double octave.
The architect must not only understand drawing, but music.
You've got to have fun playing. It bothers me when players don't seem to be enjoying themselves, even when they play an incredible improvisation.
I have been in a lot of movies, but none of them are critics' darlings, you might say.
Character is money; and according as the man earns or spends the money, money in turn becomes character. As money is the most evident power in the world's uses, so the use that he makes of money is often all that the world knows about a man.
The Communist Party is very popular in South Africa, especially among the young people. Never having had a chance to travel, and having suffered so much under capitalism, they still can't believe that the Russian people themselves have rejected it.