Le Corbusier
Architect, Designer, Urban Planner
"Light creates ambience and feel of a place, as well as the expression of a structure."
Structure quotes
Structure
290 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Peter Drucker
Management Consultant, Author
"Mission defines strategy, and strategy defines structure."
Walter Russell
Artist, Author, Philosopher
"The keystone of the entire structure of the spiritual and physical universe is Rhythmic Balanced Interchange between all opposites."
Paulo Freire
Educator, Author
"If the structure does not permit dialogue the structure must be changed"
Michelangelo Antonioni
Film Director, Screenwriter
"A scene has to have a rhythm of its own, a structure of its own."
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"Crystals reveal their hidden structures only when broken."
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"Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power."
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"I love fashion from the 1930s and '40s - shoulder pads, high waists, things with structure. That is classy for me. Andrea Riseborough from the Madonna movie 'W.E.' had an amazing wardrobe."
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"That is what intrigues me; songwriting and song structure and expression."
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"Touring is very routine. You get to the city, you go to the hotel, you got to be at the hotel by a certain time - it's very routine. I'm not a very structured person, so when I get some structure, it's cool; it's good for me."
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"Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?"
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"Be aroused by poetry; structure yourself with propriety, refine yourself with music."
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"Structure is translation software for your imagination."
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"The most rigid structures, the most impervious to change, will collapse first."
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"I am moved more by melodies, song structure, and evocative textures."
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"The most solid stone in the structure is the lowest one in the foundation."
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"Everyone is the fabric and structure of existence."
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"I became more and more convinced that even nature could be understood as a relatively simple mathematical structure."
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"To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a camera alters the meaning of the object photographed."
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"There is no justice, there is no rational structure to it [life]. That is just the way it is, and each person figures out some way to cope."
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"Yes! is the thing that blows the whole structure apart."
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"Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind."
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"Today's symphonic music is sponsored by the upper structures of society."
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"Mathemagical mathematics combines the beauty of mathematical structure with the entertainment value of a trick."
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"Our psyche is set up in accord with the structure of the universe, and what happens in the macrocosm likewise happens in the infinitesimal and most subjective reaches of the psyche"
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