Architecture Quotes · Page 42

I feel most strongly about Jerusalem, because architects ultimately have to address that city.

— Ben Nicholson

Architecture is either the prophecy of an unformed society or the tomb of a finished one.

— Lewis Mumford

The Stone Age did not end because humans ran out of stones. It ended because it was time for a re-think about…

— William McDonough

The city is a body and a mind - a physical structure as well as a repository of ideas and information.

— David Byrne

Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone. It can for children - for anyone. It still does for…

— Frank Gehry

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

— Le Corbusier

It seems to me now that the deep structures [in writing] are often subconscious and set in childhood.

— Zadie Smith

In architecture you should live for 150 years, because you have to learn in the first 75 years.

— Renzo Piano

I got the idea that to write books would be the best way to spend a life. I never thought of anything…

— Frances Mayes

Even if it's not a style of architecture or period you like, a decorator has to have a feel for a house's…

— Nancy Lancaster

When Europeans first came to Africa, they considered the architecture very disorganized and thus primitive. It never occurred to them that the…

— Ron Eglash

You can be as creative as you want to and build all these cool projects, but ultimately, if they're not successful and…

— Coy Bowles

The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain…

— John Green

As much as the needs of fact, the needs of the spirit and the senses, must be satisfied. Architecture is as much…

— Harry Seidler

Such was a poet and shall be and is -who'll solve the depths of horror to defend a sunbeam's architecture with his…

— e. e. cummings

Amsterdam is such a fun, cool place, and it's very Instagrammable with the canals and the boats and the flowers and the…

— NikkieTutorials

The book recounts stories from my half-century of experience in the world of architecture and my journey of discovery of the importance…

— Sim Van der Ryn

“In the 1970s, while researching in the Library of Congress, I found an obscure history of religious architecture that assumed a fact…

— Gloria Steinem

“It took Feyra some time to realise that she was not delirious: the citizens were wearing painted masks.From childhood she had heard…

— Marina Fiorato

The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian condition: here it is the mighty act of will, the will which moves…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

My mom is an architect by trade, but I think she's mostly a creative spirit. She's always making something, whether it's furniture…

— Julio Torres

“It is my trade," he said. "I work for the bean family, and every day there are deaths among the beans, mostly…

— Janet Frame

All buildings, large or small, public or private, have a public face, a facade; they therefore, without exception, have a positive or…

— Leon Krier

There is a Greco-Buddhist school of architecture and sculpture that you find everywhere in the world. It's fascinating, because Alexander died in…

— Oliver Stone

“Queen Isabella III seemed to have been designed by corporate architects, the sort who put doors halfway up walls for aesthetic balance.”

— Mjke Wood

There can be little question that the tall building presents one of the most difficult challenges to the architect.

— Martin Filler

There is one way that architecture is superior to sculpture, and that is scale. You can walk into a building and have…

— Santiago Calatrava

Architecture is supposed to complete nature. Great architecture makes nature more beautiful-it gives it power.

— Claudio Silvestrin

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Our children may learn about heroes of the past. Our task is to make ourselves architects of the future.

— Jomo Kenyatta

The Italians are the most civilized people. And they're very warm. Basically, they're Jews with great architecture.

— Fran Lebowitz

All are architects of Fate, Working in these walls of Time; Some with massive deeds and great, Some with ornaments of rhyme.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“We are all architects of our current opportunities, build the best out of what you have at this moment.”

— Wayne Chirisa

To me, a film is like a piece of architecture. There are so many details that all, in the end, end up…

— Andre Øvredal

In architecture, Palladio is the game. It means hard thought all through - if it is labored, it fails.

— Edwin Lutyens

I've got loads of ideas, but I need some structure in my life. I need a mission.

— Liam Cunningham

My only conclusion about structure is that nothing works if you don't have interesting characters and a good story to tell.

— Harold Ramis

For me, one of the most flattering things in the world is for parents to write to me saying their children want…

— George Clarke

Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval…

— Goldwin Smith

The fine arts are five in number, namely: painting, sculpture, poetry, music, and architecture, the principal branch of the latter being pastry.

— Marie-Antoine Careme