Quotes by Eero Saarinen - Page 1

Function influence but does not dictate form
Eero Saarinen / Architect
Doe
Form
Influence
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Confusion comes from trying to amalgamate several conflicting ideas.
Eero Saarinen / Architect
Confusion
Ideas
Trying
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I wanted to clear up the slum of legs… I wanted to make the chair all one thing again.
Eero Saarinen / Architect
Chairs
Clear
Legs
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To me the drawn language is a very revealing language: one can see in a few lines whether a man is really an architect.
Eero Saarinen / Architect
Architecture
Men
Lines
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The purpose of architecture is to shelter and enhance man's life on earth and to fulfill his belief in the nobility of his existence.
Eero Saarinen / Architect
Men
Earth
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What you newspaper and magazine writers, who work in rabbit time, don't understand is that the practice of architecture has to be measured in elephant time.
Eero Saarinen / Architect
Elephants
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I have come to the conviction that once one embarks on a concept for a building, this concept has to be exaggerated and overstated and repeated in every part of its interior so that wherever you are, inside or outside, the building sings with the same message.
Eero Saarinen / Architect
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Egyptian pyramids or obelisks – seemed to be the basis of the great memorials that have kept their significance and dignity across time. Neither an obelisk nor a rectangular box nor a dome seemed right on this site or for this purpose. But here, at the edge of the Mississippi River, a great arch did seem right.
Eero Saarinen / Architect
Arches
Domes
Rivers
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