
Form is the possibility of structure.
Christoph Engel | Haus Esters | 2003
There is no way to perform architecture in a book. Words and drawings can only produce paper space, not the experience of real space. By definition, paper space is imaginary; it is an image.
Walter Gropius | Haus Stichweh | 1953
Architects don't invent anything; they just transform reality.
Isa Genzken | Fenster | 1990
Art is an idea that has found its perfect form.
Barnett Newman | Untitled Etching #1 | 1969
The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
Bas Jan Ader, 1975
The subject of the work is your experience, your walking.
Harald Szeemann, 2001
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I have a confidence in my understanding of formal aesthetics and I don’t want to be aware of it or make that my problem.
There is never any question of what to paint, but how to paint.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe | Neue Nationalgalerie | 1968
Simplicity of form is not necessarily simplicity of experience.
Bernd and Hilla Becher | Transformator Bous | 1970
Don’t confuse minimal with simple.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe | Haus Lemke | 1933
I believe that all painters are realists for themselves. They are abstract for other people.
Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
Joachim Bandau | Überhängend | 2000
I think if you want to make art, at some point you have to suspend judgment, and you have to involve yourself with play and not worry about the outcome.
Basically, that is my subject: I use steel to organize space.
To me, the minimalist aesthetic is the most humanist of all, one that elicits the full power of all our senses.
Gregor Schneider | u61; Haus Lange | 1994