Architecture Quotes · Page 26

The form is the possibility of the structure.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change

— William S. Burroughs

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

— Henry David Thoreau

Beware of over-confidence; especially in matters of structure.

— Cass Gilbert

I just hand shoes on the wall. They're architecture you know.

— Tori Amos

Each new situation requires a new architecture.

— Jean Nouvel

We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.

— Ray Bradbury

Who knows, maybe I am simply a talented architect?

— Moshe Safdie

I have a background in technology, design, architecture, arts and sciences. I see myself as a multi-dimensional person.

— Pranav Mistry

There is little in the architecture of a city that is more beautifully designed than a tree.

— Jaime Lerner

Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful.

— Ian Mckellen

“The only way to enjoy architecture is not just to look at it but to move around it and through it.”

— Kenneth Bayes

A greater focus on design in all new homes would make the best use of land, create homes and public spaces, and…

— Richard Rogers

The difference between a builder and an architect is that an architect also cares about desire, about dreams.

— Renzo Piano

I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...)

— Larry Wall

We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.

— Minoru Yamasaki

Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment.…

— Marilyn Hacker

On Church: Church wasn't designed by an architect (Technically, Jesus was a carpenter.). So why do we think of churches as buildings…

— Dillon Burroughs

Architects feel empowered to give opinions about politics and sociology and philosophy without knowing much about it. Kind of in the same…

— Rafael Vinoly

Live action writers will give you a structure, but who the hell is talking about structure? Animation is closer to jazz than…

— Ralph Bakshi

“Buckminster Fuller explained to me once that because our world is constructed from geometric relations like the Golden Ratio or the Fibonacci…

— Einar Thorsteinn

I don't know what happened to architecture [in Las-Vegas] I think they're getting us ready for space colonies or something, nobody puts…

— Jim Carrey

As for myself, I'm attracted to venture into places with peeling paint, and areas that are crumbling a little bit. It makes…

— Teresa Palmer

For the first project I did in North America, I was asked as an artist, not as an architect, to collaborate on…

— Santiago Calatrava

I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study…

— John Adams

“The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness. Sometimes, therefore, a door opens onto a hallway impossibly,…

— John Updike

When the old way of seeing was displaced, a hollowness came into architecture. Our buildings show a constant effort to fill that…

— Jonathan Hale

“Once, we built structures entirely from the most durable substances we knew: granite block, for instance. The results are still around today…

— Alan Weisman

Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

People ask me all the time, 'How can I walk in these heels?' I answer with the best compliment I remember that…

— Christian Louboutin

She missed the built environment of New York City. It was only in an urban landscape, amid straight lines and architecture, that…

— Ruth Ozeki

Today, when so much seems to conspire to reduce life and feeling to the most deprived and demeaning bottom line, it is…

— Ada Louise Huxtable

Australia is, in fact, an old man's bureaucracy.

— Robin Boyd

No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

— John Ruskin

Postmodernism is a freewheeling, unfettered, and unapologetic pursuit of style.

— Ada Louise Huxtable

I know we can't have a great architecture while it is only for the landlord.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

It is very difficult to build contemporary architecture in Italy

— Fabio Novembre

The genius of architecture seems to have shed its maledictions over this land.

— Thomas Jefferson

Dude, my hair is like an architectural structure. It’s like… a building.

— Taylor Swift

I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.

— Barry Mann