Furniture Designer

Poul Henningsen

Literature

1894–1967

"By making this chair five times as expensive, three times heavier, half as comfortable, and only a fraction as beautiful, an architect can make a good name for himself."

🇨🇭Le Corbusier

Art

modern architecture

1887–1965

"Vehicular traffic is completely forbidden in the green strips, where tranquility shall reign and the curse of noise shall not penetrate."

Karl Friedrich Schinkel

Art

Greek Revival architecture

1781–1841

"Indifference to the fine arts comes close to barbarism."

🇺🇸Josef Hoffmann

Education

1870–1956

"Our aim is to create an island of tranquility in our own country which, amid the joyful hum of arts and crafts, would be welcome to anyone who professes faith in Ruskin and Morris."

Alexander Rodchenko

Art

cubism

1891–1956

"One has to take several different shots of a subject, from different points of view and in different situations, as if one examined it in the round rather than looked through the same key-hole again and again."

Piet Mondrian

Art

Symbolism

1872–1944

"In his later works Doesburg tried to destroy static expression by diagonal position of his lines. But in this way the feeling of physic equilibrium which is necessary to enjoy a work of art is lost."

Karel Appel

Art

abstract expressionism

1921–2006

"..people always talk about painting, because basically painting does not talk."