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