Peter Zumthor | Therme Vals | 1996

The world is full of objects, more or less interesting; I do not wish to add any more.

— Douglas Huebler

Kitty Kraus | Untitled | 2006

To change art destroy ego.

— Ben Vautier

Francesca Woodman

If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine. It is lethal.

— Paulo Coelho

Please do not understand me too quickly.

— André Gide

Yves Klein

Empty room reserved for the "sensibilité picturale immatérielle",
Haus Lange, during the "Monochrome und Feuer" exhibit, 1961

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