Architecture Quotes · Page 53

Madam de Stael pronounced architecture to be frozen music; so is statuary crystalized spirituality.

— Louisa May Alcott

I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was - and is - a builder in my…

— Renzo Piano

If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture...

— Oscar Wilde

Most of what you see in architecture are watered-down ideas of sculptors who have come before.

— Richard Serra

Classical buildings endure because they are loved, admired and accepted, and enjoy an innate adaption to human needs and purposes.

— Roger Scruton

I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Chicago is a beautiful city - the architecture, the food, everything in the city is awesome.

— Chance the Rapper

Ive always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.

— James Polshek

If you have a structure beforehand, you're sort of stuffing your story into a pre-assembled box. You don't want that to happen.…

— Colum McCann

“This structure synthesizes what you know, indicates what else you need to know, and lays out your plan to address those remaining…

— Victor Cheng

“… that architecture’s dependency, far from being its weakness, becomes its opportunity, with the architect acting as open-minded listener and feet-footed interpreter,…

— Jeremy Till

Charleston has something for everyone, rain or shine. Its architecture is unparalleled. Carriage rides are great for seeing the city and hearing…

— Thomas Gibson

In order for architecture to experience its ongoing evolution as a language, there has to be a lot of adjusted copies between…

— Jimenez Lai

The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Look at your fingers, how the first joint is longer than the second is longer than the end joint. The ratio is…

— Chuck Palahniuk

When you see all of the pandas in this movie [Kung Fu Panda 3], they are rolling because that is exactly what…

— Jennifer Yuh Nelson

Bill Sofield has the ability to understand the architecture of a space and how to utilize it in the most beautiful way.…

— Tom Ford

“Museum architectural search committees have invariably included the Kimbell in their international scouting tours of exemplary art galleries (a practice pioneered by…

— Martin Filler

“The ballpark is the star. In the age of Tris Speaker and Babe Ruth, the era of Jimmie Foxx and Ted Williams,…

— Anonymous

What connects architecture and music is that neither one is really an object. It's more like an ambience, a surrounding and a…

— Vito Acconci

I spent more than ten years working on the Neues Museum. It was a wonderful experience, an example of real collaboration between…

— David Chipperfield

If you look at any leaf on any tree branch, it's similar to but not exactly a repetition of the previous branch.…

— Charles Jencks

Brandon McCaw did a story based on like Latin literature, Roman art assumed its distinctive character during the principle. Before this time,…

— Brandon McCaw

... those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded... Sad,…

— Herbert Spencer

The practice of architecture not only requires participation in the profession but it also requires civic engagement.

— Samuel

I always had a sense of liking diagrams, from the time I was studying architecture. Architecture is built diagrams, basically.

— Paul Laffoley

Art in progress. MAK has occupied a unique and valuable space as international host for discourse between the arts and architecture.

— Thom Mayne

“The deeper we delve into the nature of things, the looser our structure may seem to become.”

— Don DeLillo

The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think…

— Maya Lin

I think the future of architecture does not lie so much in continuing to fill up the landscape, as in bringing back…

— Gottfried Bohm

In L.A., cinema and television might be seen as more interesting places for architecture than ever before.

— Neil Denari

The purpose of architecture is to shelter and enhance man’s life on earth and to fulfill his belief in the nobility of…

— Eero Saarinen

There is a lot of bad architecture. What we need more is to look at how our landscape should look in the…

— Dieter Rams

Better to be the architect of something you can endorse than the placard waving protagonist standing in the rain.

— Mr. Wrestling

“                •   Initiation, business requirements, architecture and design,”

— William Dow

Architecture has joined the world of fashion, but fashion is passing and architecture is timeless.

— Moshe Safdie

The most enjoyable things are the old eighteenth-century terraces that are still standing, that domestic architecture.

— Ken Loach

Harrow the house of the dead; look shining at New styles of architecture, a change of heart.

— W. H. Auden

I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity.

— I. M. Pei

The great problem of the concert hall is that the shoebox is the ideal shape for acoustics but that no architect worth…

— Rem Koolhaas