Bernini Quotes:

We are all affected by Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto, and Mies van der Rohe. But no less than Bramante, Borromini, and Bernini. Architecture is a tradition, a long continuum. Whether we break with tradition or enhance it, we are still connected to that past. We evolve.

- Richard Meier

topic: Past, Long, Architecture, Mies Van Der Rohe, Continuum

One of my greatest influences is the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

- Frank Gehry

topic: Artist, Italian, Influence, Bernini

In the Renaissance there wasn't a distinction. Bernini was an artist and he made architecture, and Michelangelo also did some great architecture.

- Frank Gehry

source: Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. March 1, 2011.

topic: Artist, Renaissance, Architecture, Bernini

For me [ Giovanni Lorenzo ] Bernini, [Francesco ] Borromini, and [Donato] Bramante have been as significant as Alvar Aalto, Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, and Louis Kahn. I still marvel at their works, which have a quality and a timelessness that I seek to have in our projects.

- Richard Meier

source: Source: www.architecturaldigest.com

topic: Quality, Significant, Projects, Bernini

[Pope] Francis communicates the pastoral embrace of the Church, the breadth and inclusiveness of Catholicism symbolized by the Bernini colonnade around St. Peter's Square, in a powerful way.

- George Weigel

source: Source: eppc.org

topic: Powerful, Past, Squares, Inclusiveness, St Peter