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The shortest distance between two points is under construction. (Noelie Altito)
Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone. (Jorge Luis Borges)
-1913 Armory Show, New York
The world in every department of life is becoming intent on constructive problems; and in art it is the structural qualities of composition that are claiming the study of younger men. (Charles Caffin)
Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of his great rival. (Paul Cezanne)
The deconstructionist notion that 'anything goes' in art means also that 'nothing goes.' Thus, the argument seen from that perspective is pointless and goes nowhere. (Lisa Chakrabarti)
The whole difference between a construction and a creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists. (G. K. Chesterton)
We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us. (Winston Churchill)
My precept to all who build, is that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner. (Cicero)
I build a painting by putting little marks together – some look like hot dogs, some like doughnuts. (Chuck Close)
Rome wasn't built in a day and if it had been, it might have fallen apart just as quickly. (Jeff Davidson)
I let nature invade my mind with her variety of changing forms; these become the building blocks that I draw upon to create. (Charles Duback)
The brush is a more powerful and rapid tool than the point or the stump... the main thing that the brush secures is the instant grasp of the grand construction of a figure. (Thomas Eakins)
A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The artist reconstructs the random vocabulary of verticals, horizontals, diagonals, volumes, cubes, spheres, textures, darks, lights, patterns, and color into an order of vital relationships inextricably linked to the dynamics of life. (R. D. Abbey & G. William Fiero)
Objects are held by the backgrounds that are cut into them. (Robert Genn)
He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe... (Philip Guston)
Man-made things, buildings, boats, etc., we see more decidedly than the other things in a landscape. (Charles Hawthorne)
Castles in the air – they're so easy to take refuge in. So easy to build, too. (Henrik Ibsen)
If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted. (Franz Kafka)
The organic laws of construction tangled me in my desires, and only with great pain, effort, and struggle did I break through these "walls around art." (Wassily Kandinsky)
Constructiveness is the human way. (Dalai Lama)
Recreational development is a job not of building roads into the lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind. (Aldo Leopold)
In the elder days of Art, / Builders wrought with greatest care / Each minute and unseen part; / For the gods see everywhere. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
My marks are results of a building process; strokes building form, creating a sense of depth and three-dimensionality. (Jeanean Songco Martin)
Fit the parts together, one into the other, and build your figure like a carpenter builds a house. Everything must be constructed, composed of parts that make a whole... (Henri Matisse)
You are actually constructing... what your head understood about what your eyes saw. (Doris McCarthy)
Find your center and build from there. (Margaret Merrill)
-on flower series...
I'll make them big like huge buildings going up. People will be startled; they will have to look at them. (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Every act of construction is an act of destruction. (Pablo Picasso)
As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser. (Plato)
Prose needs to be built like a cathedral. There one is truly without a name, without ambition, without help; on scaffoldings, alone with one's consciousness. (Rainer Maria Rilke)
As bees gather honey, so we collect what is sweetest out of all things and build... (Rainer Maria Rilke)
-The Mystic Masters Speak! by Vernon Howard
Ever building, building to the clouds, still building higher, and never reflecting that the poor narrow basis cannot sustain the giddy tottering column. (Johann Friedrich von Schiller)
Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships. (Charles Simic)
The body of a young woman is God's greatest achievement... Of course, He could have built it to last longer but you can't have everything. (Neil Simon)
Choice and chance structure art and nature. (Frederick Sommer)
Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone. (Mark Twain)
Snowmen fall from Heaven unassembled. (unknown)
The road to success is always under construction. (unknown)
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction. (Simone Weil)
These paintings are not planned... The construction of the picture happens as I go from top to bottom. It's then that the adjustments occur: color, light, drawing, tone. (Neil Welliver)
Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die. (Margaret J. Wheatley)
Writing a novel is like building a wall brick by brick; only amateurs believe in inspiration. (Frank Yerby)
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