It surprises me how disinterested we are today about things like physics, space, the universe, and philosophy of our existence, our purpose, our final destination. It's a crazy world out there. Be curious.

— Stephen Hawking

Francesca Woodman

If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start.

— Charles Bukowski

Francesca Woodman

Emptiness which is conceptually liable to be mistaken for sheer nothingness is in fact the reservoir of infinite possibilities.

— Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki

Minimalism is not a style, it is an attitude, a way of being. It's a fundamental reaction against noise, visual noise, disorder, vulgarity. Minimalism is the pursuit of the essence of things, not the appearance.

— Claudio Silvestrin

Andy Warhol is the only genius I’ve ever known with an IQ of 60.

— Gore Vidal

Form is the possibility of structure.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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.

— Bernard Tschumi

Walter Gropius | Haus Stichweh | 1953

Architects don't invent anything; they just transform reality.

— Álvaro Siza Vieira

Isa Genzken | Fenster | 1990

Art is an idea that has found its perfect form.

— Paul Rand

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.

— Robert Motherwell

Bas Jan Ader, 1975