Architecture Quotes · Page 19

To create, one must first question everything.

— Eileen Gray

I never thought I was going to be an architect in the conventional sense.

— Elizabeth Diller

Architecture is much more than a profession; It's a discipline.

— Odile Decq

Build your architecture from what is beneath your feet.

— Hassan Fathy

Architecture is about public space held by buildings.

— Richard Rogers

You know, it is life that is right and the architect who is wrong.

— Le Corbusier

It's not my duty as an architect to look at it

— Zaha Hadid

“Architecture domesticates limitless space and enables us to inhabit it [...]”

— Juhani Pallasmaa

Architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.

— Roland Barthes

“If you find yourself surrounded by negative, whiny, sarcastic people, consider the architecture of your life and think about doing a little…

— Matt Tullos

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Architecture is my work, and Ive spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What…

— Oscar Niemeyer

The second I was on the tennis court, I had the structure I wanted. I was in complete control of what I…

— Madison Keys

During high school, I wanted to work in architecture or engineering for no particular reason.

— Ji Chang-wook

My preference for clear structures is the result of my desire - perhaps illusory - to keep track of things and maintain…

— Andreas Gursky

Golf course architects make me sick. They can't play themselves, so they rig the courses so nobody else can play either.

— Sam Snead

I have always accepted and respected all other schools of architecture, from the chill and elemental structures of Mies van der Rohe…

— Oscar Niemeyer

I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture…

— Maya Lin

My trade and my art is living. He who forbids me to speak about it according to my sense, experience, and practice,…

— Michel de Montaigne

In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and…

— Arne Jacobsen

That's what you have to find in architecture. You have to find your signature. When you find it, you're the only expert…

— Frank Gehry

As a visual discourse, architecture requires trained individuals to work on the refined philosophical debates. School gave me the necessary training, and…

— Jimenez Lai

I think the general public's response to my projects is very strong. You can be an intellectual and say that popularity detracts…

— Moshe Safdie

I hope you will understand that architecture has nothing to do with the inventions of forms. It is not a playground for…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Now do you not see that the eye embraces the beauty of the whole world? It counsels and corrects all the arts…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Consent of the Networked will become the seminal book firmly establishing the responsibility of those who control the architecture and the politics…

— Joichi Ito

“Let us summarize these three points more concisely: (a) The rejection of art as a mere emotional, individualistic, and romantic affair. (b)…

— El Lissitzky

I feel very strongly that history is about everything. It isn't just about politics or the military or social issues. If art,…

— David McCullough

“A recurrent theme of this book is that architects, fairly low in the chain of command and needing jobs, are prone to…

— Charles Jencks

I was born and spent my first five years in Chester, an ancient city that retains some of its Roman walls and…

— Linda Colley

In 500 years, English has changed a lot, and right now we're undergoing an extremely rapid rate of accelerated advancement in terms…

— Jimenez Lai

For corporations to be bedfellows with the arts is good business for both. The architecture that houses a company is a more…

— Malcolm Forbes

I think films are bigger than structure.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Choice and chance structure art and nature.

— Frederick Sommer

Women are the real architects of society.

— Anonymous

I like structure, and I like discipline and people doing the right thing.

— Mark Henry

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

— H. Rap Brown

The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.

— Tadao Ando

I grew up in Romania studying art and architecture.

— Anastasia Soare

The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.

— Arthur Erickson