architecture
I am but an architectural composer.
2 views from Alexander Jackson Davis
All real education is the architecture of the soul.
2 wisdom & wit from William Bennett
They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.
117 other views from Henry David Thoreau
I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.
2 quotes from Alexander Jackson Davis
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 quotes from Coco Chanel
Form follows function.
2 views from Louis Sullivan
But the building's identity resided in the ornament.
2 sayings from Louis Sullivan
Make big plans aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.
2 more thoughts from Daniel Burnham
Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.
5 thoughts from Le Corbusier
The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.
24 other quotes from Samuel Taylor Coleridge
To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.
5 more sayings from Le Corbusier
A house is a machine for living in.
5 quotes 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 wisdom & wit from Noel Coward
Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe.
3 quotes from Minoru Yamasaki
The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.
4 more quotes from Adolf Loos
We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.
3 other views from Minoru Yamasaki
Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.
2 other wisdom & wit 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
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
Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.
3 quotes from Robert Smithson
What people want, above all, is order.
13 other quotes 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 thoughts from Lord Byron
Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.
13 other views from Stephen Gardiner
Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.
2 thoughts from Julia Morgan
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 views from Thomas a Kempis
The interior of the house personifies the private world the exterior of it is part of the outside world.
13 sayings 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 other sayings from Stephen Gardiner
The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.
13 more views from Stephen Gardiner
Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.
13 quotes from Stephen Gardiner
My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone.
2 more sayings from Julia Morgan
Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
45 views from Thomas Fuller
Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.
13 quotes from Stephen Gardiner
Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.
3 more quotes from Ernest Dimnet
I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly.
4 views from Arne Jacobsen
Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.
3 other quotes from Louis Kahn
I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.
24 more thoughts from Ayn Rand
Architecture is inhabited sculpture.
2 more quotes from Constantin Brancusi
Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.
4 views from Arne Jacobsen
If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.
4 views from Arne Jacobsen
Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.
3 thoughts from Louis Kahn
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 more wisdom & wit from John Ruskin
No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.
45 wisdom & wit from John Ruskin
A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.
24 other quotes from Ayn Rand
I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening to me they are one.
5 other sayings from Luis Barragan
My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.
5 quotes from Luis Barragan
Less is more.
5 wisdom & wit from Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.
5 more thoughts from Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.
5 more sayings from Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.
3 more quotes from Thomas Reid
The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
11 quotes from Salvador Dali
There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
52 quotes 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 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 wisdom & wit from Gilbert K. Chesterton
Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.
26 quotes from Frank Lloyd Wright
In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.
5 thoughts from Charles Eames
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
26 other quotes from Frank Lloyd Wright
An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.
26 thoughts from Frank Lloyd Wright
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
26 wisdom & wit from Frank Lloyd Wright