Architecture Quotes · Page 110

“AND SO THE STORY ENDS, bracketed by two architects: Daedalus, who built the Minoan labyrinth, and Ventris, who found the thread that…

— Margalit Fox

I always say that writing non-fiction versus writing fiction is a bit like architecture versus abstract painting.

— Andrew Lam

Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.

— Ambrose Bierce

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.

— Vera Wang

I would never go to a place and live there because the weather was good or the scenery was beautiful or the…

— Quentin Crisp

Adelaide was the first city in Australia, if not in the world, to provide for the health and recreation of all its…

— Robin Boyd

A structure is a bit like a story. People will go along with you - they see where you're going.

— Melvyn Bragg

Architects love to rethink a project - that's what we do. If something is successful, like a house or a kettle, in…

— Michael Graves

I try to just put a blank stage in front of them, and say, "This is your space; you tell me where…

— Doug Aitken

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

— Ernest Hemingway

What if we treat the high-rise like a mountain, or we have gardens in the sky, or waterfalls? I think that's the…

— Ma Yansong

Architects are mostly self-centered and their buildings express their ego. [They are] not social buildings to make it more comfortable for people…

— Jacque Fresco

When I visit any cathedral, it reminds me of being with my grandparents. They weren't particularly religious, but my grandfather was obsessed…

— Jonathan Anderson

I'm not modest about myself. I know for a fact that I am good. But good in the sense that I can…

— Julius Shulman

I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people…

— Frances Mayes

Beauty isn't what I'm primarily interested in [in architecture]. I think appropriateness is more important.

— Rem Koolhaas

I love creating models and coming up with explicit structures I can play with.

— Edward C. Prescott

Winning the Pritzker assures a flood of work in one's seventies and eighties, jobs necessarily carried out by assistants as the demands…

— Martin Filler

Architecture is a discipline that takes time and patience. If one spends enough years writing complex novels one might be able, someday,…

— Thom Mayne

I'm very interested in structure, how multiple stories are assembled in different ways; that is what memory does as well.

— Nicole Krauss

Theater publicly reveals the human condition through appealing to both intellect and emotion. Architecture, whether lowly or exalted, can do the same.

— Hugh Hardy

To me the drawn language is a very revealing language: one can see in a few lines whether a man is really…

— Eero Saarinen

In America access is always about architecture and never about human beings. Among Israelis and Palestinians, access was rarely about anything but…

— John Hockenberry

In the 1950s, my family first lived in West Los Angeles. Dad was studying architecture at USC and we didn't have a…

— John Densmore