An architect does not need to spend his whole career…

Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is reasonably resumed from it;…

— Thomas Browne

I sell architecture better and more directly and more vividly than the architect does... The average architect is stupid. He doesn't know how to…

— Julius Shulman

Architects mostly work for privileged people, people who have money and power, Power and money are invisible, so people hire us to visualize their…

— Shigeru Ban

It is the rare architect who does not hope in his heart to design a great building and for whom the quest is not…

— Ada Louise Huxtable

Economy denotes the the proper management of materials and of site, as well as a thrifty balancing of cost and common sense in the…

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

Everyone used to want to be star architects. That's no longer the case.

— Shigeru Ban

The most important thing, in order to forge one's own creative personality, is to travel, to see different environments, different cultures. I wanted to…

— Shigeru Ban

I think people should look at learning about Native American history the same as visiting Washington, D.C., and seeing the monuments there. It's all…

— Chaske Spencer

History can be formed from permanent monuments and records; but lives can only be written from personal knowledge, which is growing every day less,…

— Samuel Johnson

When we see the many grave-stones which have fallen in, which have been defaced by the footsteps of the congregation, which lie buried under…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I viewed the station as a place, a terrain where I could put a new architecture in place. The station was, of course, an…

— Gae Aulenti

There's as much chance of repealing the Eighteenth Amendment as there is for a hummingbird to fly to the planet Mars with the Washington…

— Morris Sheppard

The blessed Religion revealed in the word of God will remain an eternal and awful monument to prove that the best Institution may be…

— George Washington

A great reputation is a great noise, the more there is of it, and the further does it swell. Land, monuments, Nations, all fall,…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution. I desire…

— George Bernard Shaw