Space Quotes

"The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don't know what you're here to do, then just do some good."

"What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit."

John Updike

"Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep."

Le Corbusier

"Architecture is the thoughtful making of space."

Louis Kahn

"Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space."

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

"Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person."

Zaha Hadid

"If I can create some space that people haven't experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future, that's the kind of structure I seek to create."

Tadao Ando

"My passion is creating space."

Peter Zumthor

"I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery."

Luis Barragán

"I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage. A man walks across this empty space whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all that is needed for an act of theatre to be engaged."

Peter Brook

"A library is a community space. It's a place of safety, a haven from the world."

Neil Gaiman

"The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information."

Tim Berners-Lee

"You need to look, you need to think, you need to move, you need to find space, you need to help others. It's very simple in the end."

Johan Cruyff

"Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course... the space between your ears."

Bobby Jones

"Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space."

Orson Scott Card

"I just give people a peek into my mind space, but never bombard them with my tweets."

A. R. Rahman

"I like my peace. I am happy in my space."

Randhir Kapoor

"You have a lot of things to do when you're out on a space walk, and that sort of overwhelms your mind."

Sunita Williams

"The reason we have the stars twinkle at night is because the light is being kind of blurred by the atmosphere around the Earth. That is why the Hubble Space Telescope is so good, because it is above the atmosphere."

Michael J. Massimino

"The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage."

Mark Russell

"If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, does anything happen?"

Steven Wright

"After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'"

William S. Burroughs

"Space music'd be really something... but they don't have no gravity up there. You couldn't have no downbeat!"

Miles Davis

"Architecture is the art of how to waste space."

Philip Johnson

"I'm looking forward to coming back, back to Earth, the landing, the views."

Duane G. Carey