Architecture Quotes · Page 39

The sight of such a monument is like continual and stationary music, which one hears for one's good as one approaches it.

— Madame de Stael

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

— Samuel Butler

I'm inspired by many things, from landscapes to textiles. Art and architecture always influence my design process.

— Francisco Costa

“Modern man has lost the sense of wonder about the unknown and he treats it as an enemy.”

— Laurens van der Post

You don't need to go to Rome, Prague or Vienna to find wonderful architecture, amazing stories and suprising, hidden gems.

— Alice Roberts

Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the…

— Kenzo Tange

Modernism in architecture went hand in hand with socialist and fascist projects to rid old Europe of its hierarchical past

— Roger Scruton

I like to work and it kind of keeps me in line, which is very good because I need that structure.

— Pamela Anderson

I'm interested in the structure of art and how it works. And the content is also interesting, but I don't want to…

— David Rees

“I had the impression that her place was near mine, but even by bus it took about twenty minutes. She lived alone…

— Banana Yoshimoto

The building art is, in reality, always the spatial execution of spiritual decisions. It is bound to its times and manifests itself…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

“I realise it’s not important who owns the physical structure or where it’s located, it’s the person you love – the bond…

— Talli Roland

I would fix other people's lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it,…

— William Devane

In 1996, I took advantage of some favourable circumstances to propose to the state of the Ticino Canton the foundation of the…

— Mario Botta

The drama embraces and applies all the beauties and decorations of poetry. The sister arts attend and adorn it. Painting, architecture, and…

— Robert Aris Willmott

The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building…

— Robert A. M. Stern

“In the 1980s, worried professionals began to come together to compare notes and create visions of new ways of living that would…

— Bella DePaulo

I've spent a lot of very happy times in Edinburgh as a result of playing virtually every festival since 1996. It's also…

— Marcus Brigstocke

“Despite their claims to a purely scientific and reasoned approach, the relationship of Modernist architects to their work remained at base a…

— Alain de Botton

At a certain point, I got interested in set design for the theater. I was interested in architecture, but I was taking…

— Neil Burger

There is always going to something very grounded about the characters I play, because of my Chicago roots, because the city is…

— Jake M. Johnson

When the functionality of a product or service overshoots what customers can use, it changes the way companies have to compete. When…

— Clayton Christensen

At least 90 percent of my work is in situ. For me, it's not only to work with the architecture and space,…

— Daniel Buren

Among the innumerable monuments of architecture constructed by the Romans, how many have escaped the notice of history, how few have resisted…

— Edward Gibbon

Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only this architecture creates.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.

— Zaha Hadid

To sum up the state of architecture in America: ninety percent of the buildings we live in and around aren't architecture. No,…

— Philip Johnson

When I started designing in school, I discovered that I had a knack for it. I fell completely in love with architecture,…

— Cesar Pelli

There are many satisfactions in public architecture but one of the greatest is the moment when you unveil a project and suddenly…

— Curtis W. Fentress

In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.

— Anonymous

I understand that, today, some developers are asking architects to design eye-catching, iconic buildings. Fortunately, I've not had that kind of client…

— Fumihiko Maki

When I went to school at Emerson, I was completely charmed living there and loved the architecture of the Back Bay.

— Joanna Going

Architecture appears for the first time when the sunlight hits a wall. The sunlight did not know what it was before it…

— Louis Kahn

It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.

— Oscar Niemeyer

A lot of my work is about questioning the stability and permanence of architecture, and, in turn, the stability of society.

— Lebbeus Woods

In your own country, it's easy to make assumptions about people based on accents, about areas based on architecture.

— Rebecca Front

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— UR Studio

Architect: Someone who knows the difference between that which could be done and that which should be done.

— Larry McVoy

Let every man feel that he is the architect and builder of his own life, and that he proposes to make a…

— Heber J. Grant

“It shows a mediocre architect at the top of his game [on the Beetham Tower in Manchester]”

— Owen Hatherley