Surroundings Quotes

A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.

You govern your surroundings by the nature of what is taking place in your consciousness.

You just get the vibes of your surroundings and it rubs off on you.

I have a lot of chameleon qualities, I get very absorbed in my surroundings.

It is imperative that the artist reveal through the medium in which he is happiest, what he sees, thinks and feels about his surroundings.

I really do believe in the influence of your surroundings.

When you success you have to be very smart and be extra focused and protect your surroundings.

I suppose I had always been an unconscious suffragist. With my temperament and my surroundings, I could scarcely have been otherwise.

Happiness isn't something that depends on our surroundings... It's something we make inside ourselves.

Miracles begin within us and then affect our surroundings.

We are what we see. We are products of our surroundings.

Context is so important, not to mimic but to become part of the place. I wanted a building that acknowledges its surroundings.

With no surroundings there can be no path, and with no path one cannot become free.

It is the free alone which never changes, and the unchangeable alone which is free; for change is produced by something exterior to a thing, or within itself, which is more powerful than the surroundings.

Art comes from everywhere. It's your response to your surroundings.

Art should become as one with its surroundings.

New buildings should fit naturally into their surroundings, both architecturally and historically, without denying or prettifying the concerns of our time

The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.

My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.

I'm painfully aware of my surroundings at all times.

The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.

A man is ever apt to contemplate himself out of all proportion to his surroundings.

If you take care of your immediate surroundings, the universe will take care of itself.

Our advanced art approaches a fragile but marvelous life, one that maintains itself by a mere thread, melting into an elusive, changeable configuration, the surroundings, the artist, his work and everyone who comes to it.