architecture
Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.
16 more quotes from Coco Chanel
Make big plans aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.
2 more wisdom & wit from Daniel Burnham
Form follows function.
2 thoughts from Louis Sullivan
But the building's identity resided in the ornament.
2 thoughts from Louis Sullivan
A house is a machine for living in.
5 thoughts from Le Corbusier
To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.
5 more quotes from Le Corbusier
The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.
24 more quotes from Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.
5 more views from Le Corbusier
We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us.
74 wisdom & wit from Winston Churchill
The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.
78 sayings from Voltaire
Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe.
3 other quotes from Minoru Yamasaki
We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.
3 more thoughts from Minoru Yamasaki
The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.
4 views from Adolf Loos
The higher the building the lower the morals.
3 quotes from Noel Coward
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
68 other quotes from Samuel Butler
Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.
2 sayings from John Osborne
Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
4 other quotes from Adolf Loos
Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.
3 quotes from Ernest Dimnet
What people want, above all, is order.
13 other views from Stephen Gardiner
A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
36 other quotes from Lord Byron
Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.
13 more sayings from Stephen Gardiner
The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.
13 quotes from Stephen Gardiner
The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.
12 sayings from Thomas a Kempis
The interior of the house personifies the private world the exterior of it is part of the outside world.
13 more quotes from Stephen Gardiner
Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.
2 other quotes from Julia Morgan
The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.
13 more sayings from Stephen Gardiner
The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.
13 other quotes from Stephen Gardiner
Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.
3 quotes from Robert Smithson
Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.
13 sayings from Stephen Gardiner
My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone.
2 sayings from Julia Morgan
Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
45 thoughts from Thomas Fuller
Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.
13 views from Stephen Gardiner
A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.
24 other sayings from Ayn Rand
It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
45 quotes from John Ruskin
Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.
3 more quotes from Louis Kahn
Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.
3 quotes from Louis Kahn
Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.
4 more quotes from Arne Jacobsen
No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.
45 other quotes from John Ruskin
If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.
4 other quotes from Arne Jacobsen
Architecture is inhabited sculpture.
2 quotes from Constantin Brancusi
I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly.
4 quotes from Arne Jacobsen
I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.
24 thoughts from Ayn Rand
Less is more.
5 more quotes from Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.
5 quotes from Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.
5 quotes from Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.
5 more quotes from Luis Barragan
I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening to me they are one.
5 quotes from Luis Barragan
The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.
3 quotes from Thomas Reid
All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
52 thoughts from Gilbert K. Chesterton
To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.
5 sayings from Martha Graham
The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
11 wisdom & wit from Salvador Dali
There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
52 other quotes from Gilbert K. Chesterton
An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.
26 more quotes from Frank Lloyd Wright
In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.
5 sayings from Charles Eames
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
26 other sayings from Frank Lloyd Wright
Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.
26 quotes from Frank Lloyd Wright
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
26 quotes from Frank Lloyd Wright
They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.
117 other quotes from Henry David Thoreau
All real education is the architecture of the soul.
2 other wisdom & wit from William Bennett
I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.
2 more wisdom & wit from Alexander Jackson Davis
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
35 more quotes from Ernest Hemingway
I am but an architectural composer.
2 more quotes from Alexander Jackson Davis