Architecture Quotes · Page 12

Each man is the architect of his own fate.

— Appius Claudius

An architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist.

— Cameron Sinclair

Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The ideal structure for a family is one that remains so.

— Jacquelyn Mitchard

Old houses mended, Cost little less than new before they're ended.

— Colley Cibber

A good sketch is better than a long speech.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I actually feel like a very traditional architect.

— Ma Yansong

Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.

— Abbie Hoffman

Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity.

— Renzo Piano

We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both.

— Karl Lagerfeld

Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music.

— Christian Louboutin

In art school, it was about feeling. In architecture school, it was about ideas.

— Elizabeth Diller

Most problems I work on are related to geometric structures on surfaces and their deformations.

— Maryam Mirzakhani

Architecture is a result of a process of asking questions and testing them and re-interrogating and changing in a repetitive way.

— Thom Mayne

The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.

— Arthur Erickson

When I'm in London, Claridge's is a great favourite. I'm a big fan of art deco architecture and the rooms are extraordinary.

— Roman Coppola

I fantasise about what the future could be in terms of aesthetic and psychology. It's the most difficult thing to do because…

— Raf Simons

We literally see things so differently, all the architecture and stuff. That's the cool part about skateboarding. We're out there skating stuff…

— Nyjah Huston

It's strange, but something about lack of structure needs a structure itself. Otherwise, after a while, it's like looking at a Rothko…

— Julian Barratt

A building that has great environmental responsibility is a political animal in a way because it becomes promotional of a cause. I…

— Antoine Predock

“We owe it to the fields that our houses will not be the inferiors of the virgin land they have replaced. We…

— Alain de Botton

“The notion of buildings that speak helps us to place at the very centre of our architectural conundrums the question of the…

— Alain de Botton

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

— Thom Mayne

It is hard not to see into the future, faced with today's blind architecture - a thousand times more stupid and more…

— Andre Breton

Architecture is, to a certain extent, a sensual gratification. It addresses itself to the eye, and affords the best scope for the…

— William H. Prescott

There is at the back of every artist’s mind something like a pattern and a type of architecture. The original quality in…

— Anonymous

“...you become the architect of your life. From coloring inside the lines to outside the lines to drawing new lines altogether. And…

— Kathleen Griffith

Nature that framed us of four elements, Warring within our breasts for regiment, Doth teach us all to have aspiring minds: Our…

— Christopher Marlowe

If theory is the role of the architect, then such beautiful proofs are the role of the craftsman. Of course, as with…

— Michael Atiyah

My dad, he's definitely one of greatest writers of his generation. There is no question about it. When you are that good,…

— Sean Lennon

I have devoted myself to architecture as a sublime act of poetic imagination. Consequently, I am only a symbol for all those…

— Luis Barragan

I'm very interested in buildings that adapt to changes in climatic conditions according to the seasons, buildings capable of responding to our…

— Glenn Murcutt

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

— Steve Martin

I think Ms. Monroe's architecture is extremely good architecture.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it.

— Walt Whitman

“Freedom without structure is its own slavery.”

— David Brooks

When the materials are ready, the architects shall appear.

— Walt Whitman

It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.

— Anonymous

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

— Coco Chanel