A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.
24 quotes 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
If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.
4 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 more quotes from Arne Jacobsen
I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.
24 more views from Ayn Rand
Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.
3 wisdom & wit from Louis Kahn
Architecture is inhabited sculpture.
2 wisdom & wit from Constantin Brancusi
No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.
45 quotes from John Ruskin
Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.
3 other quotes from Louis Kahn
Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.
4 thoughts from Arne Jacobsen
Less is more.
5 more thoughts from Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening to me they are one.
5 other quotes from Luis Barragan
My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.
5 quotes from Luis Barragan
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.
5 more wisdom & wit from Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.
5 sayings from Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.
3 sayings from Thomas Reid
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 quotes from Martha Graham
There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
52 more quotes from Gilbert K. Chesterton
The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
11 wisdom & wit from Salvador Dali
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
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
26 sayings from Frank Lloyd Wright
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
26 views from Frank Lloyd Wright
In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.
5 quotes from Charles Eames
Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.
26 views 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 other views from Frank Lloyd Wright
I am but an architectural composer.
2 quotes from Alexander Jackson Davis
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
35 more quotes from Ernest Hemingway
I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.
2 more quotes 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
Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.
16 more wisdom & wit from Coco Chanel
Make big plans aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.
2 other quotes from Daniel Burnham
Form follows function.
2 more views from Louis Sullivan
But the building's identity resided in the ornament.
2 quotes from Louis Sullivan
To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.
5 thoughts from Le Corbusier
Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.
5 sayings from Le Corbusier
The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.
24 wisdom & wit from Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A house is a machine for living in.
5 other quotes from Le Corbusier
The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.
78 sayings from Voltaire
We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us.
74 more thoughts from Winston Churchill
The higher the building the lower the morals.
3 wisdom & wit from Noel Coward
Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe.
3 views from Minoru Yamasaki
The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.
4 more views from Adolf Loos
We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.
3 other quotes from Minoru Yamasaki
Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
4 quotes from Adolf Loos
Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.
2 other thoughts 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 sayings from Samuel Butler
Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.
13 quotes from Stephen Gardiner
What people want, above all, is order.
13 more 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 sayings 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 other quotes from Julia Morgan
Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.
3 other quotes from Ernest Dimnet
The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.
13 wisdom & wit from Stephen Gardiner
Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
45 other quotes from Thomas Fuller
My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone.
2 quotes from Julia Morgan
Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.
13 other sayings from Stephen Gardiner
Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.
3 wisdom & wit from Robert Smithson
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 thoughts from Stephen Gardiner
The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.
13 more wisdom & wit from Stephen Gardiner