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