Architecture Quotes · Page 57

The architecture of the song, if it's built properly, can withstand all kinds of things.

— Emily Haines

It struck me that our history is contained in the home we live in, that we are shaped by the ability of…

— Achmat Dangor

Architecture depends on facts, but its real field of activity lies in the realm of the significance.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

If architecture is the history of all phallic emotion, the Empire State Building is utter catharsis, and we are sitting in its…

— Timothy Levitch

I'm totally into architecture for all strata of society. High design should not just be for rich people.

— David Adjaye

Generally in our world, whether in architecture or almost anywhere else, we devalue the artist, and schools at whatever level shut people…

— Frank Gehry

You must have a good structure, and not just change things based on pressure and need for a result.

— Tite

It snowed right before Jack stopped talking to Hazel, fluffy white flakes big enough to show their crystal architecture, like perfect geometric…

— Anne Ursu

But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us…

— Michael Tilson Thomas

Every problem is super-interesting and has its own nuances, and you solve it today, but you try to solve it with an…

— Travis Kalanick

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first…

— Saint Augustine

The strong structure of sustainable rapport can't be built with the truth of weak bricks cemented with vested-interest mortar and the relationship…

— Anuj Somany

The Bauhaus strives to bring together all creative effort into one whole, to reunify all the disciplines of practical art - sculpture,…

— Walter Gropius

Melrose is the finest remaining specimen of Gothic architecture in Scotland. Some of the sculptured flowers in the cloister arches are remarkably…

— Bayard Taylor

I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the…

— Tadao Ando

There was nobody in the family who had ever done anything like that before. My brothers - I had two brothers. They…

— Maggie Smith

Any set of decisions about design is inevitably influenced by cultural prejudice, no matter how intent an architect might be to avoid…

— Martin Filler

But look what we have built ... This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

— Jane Jacobs

The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of.

— John Irving

Somehow, architecture alters the way we think about the world and the way we behave. Any serious architecture, as a litmus test,…

— Thom Mayne

A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.

— Igor Stravinsky

Those who say only artists and architects can create are the ones who are elitist.

— Frank Gehry

Architecture and architectural freedom are above all a social issue that must be seen from inside a political structure, not from outside…

— Anonymous

There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts.

— Moshe Safdie

Why should architecture or objects of art in the machine age, just because they are made by machines, have to resemble machinery?

— Frank Lloyd Wright

I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.

— Charlie Rose

I first decided architecture was for me when I saw Le Corbusier's designs in a Japanese magazine in the 1930s.

— Kenzo Tange

I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

I like to make a tour round the pitch before games to look at the architecture, the colours in the stadium, the…

— Unai Emery

I have had built, from my designs, over 40,000 living units, and that's more than any other architect that I know of.

— William Krisel

An architect doesn't go off with a shovel and dig his foundation and lay every brick. He's still an artist.

— Sol LeWitt

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter,…

— John Ruskin

The dance is the mother of the arts. Music and poetry exist in time; painting and architecture in space. But the dance…

— Curt Sachs

Because I'm a novelist, I think in terms of structure. The way I keep going is through structure. It's what inspires me…

— Jess Walter

Architecture has been male-dominated forever, and I am a grateful beneficiary of the women's movement.

— Elizabeth Diller

The building is a special place because of its architecture; But it's people who make it special by participating in it.

— Charlie Chaplin

I love the South Bank: every era of architecture is there, and you can stop, look, and listen.

— Abi Morgan

A bold architectural statement turns a public building into a landmark, but it is in the details where the architect becomes the…

— Curtis W. Fentress

No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung,Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung.Majestic silence.

— Reginald Heber

The architecture of our future is not only unfinished; the scaffolding has hardly gone up.

— George Lamming