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