Art & Creativity Quote by Minoru Yamasaki

Consistency, in Yamasaki's telling, isnt a fussy preference; its a moral and artistic discipline. He frames architecture as a sibling to painting and sculpture to stake a claim that buildings should read with the same intentionality as a canvas: one coherent voice, not a committee of gestures. The repetition of "try" does quiet work here. It admits that architecture is uniquely resistant to purity. Budgets change, clients intervene, codes intrude, engineers negotiate, weather and wear have their say. In that mess, "completely consistent" becomes less a brag than a north star, the thing you keep reaching for when the real world tugs the project off-axis.

The line also smuggles in a modernist anxiety: that architecture, unlike the fine arts, is always tempted by compromise and eclecticism. By invoking the painter and sculptor, Yamasaki tries to rescue buildings from becoming collages of fashion. Consistency is a way to protect meaning: if every detail belongs to the same system, the public can feel the logic even if they cant name it. Its an argument for legibility, for atmosphere that holds together.

Context matters because Yamasaki built at a moment when corporate modernism was hardening into a style, and "consistency" could easily tip into blandness or repetition. His subtext is defensive and aspirational: dont mistake restraint for emptiness. He wants the unity of an artwork, but at the scale of cities, where unity is always contested.