Architecture Quotes · Page 54

There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk around, and architecture…

— Dan Rice

Theater publicly reveals the human condition through appealing to both intellect and emotion. Architecture, whether lowly or exalted, can do the same.

— Hugh Hardy

Architecture is not all about the design of the building and nothing else, it is also about the cultural setting and the…

— Michael Graves

The pencil and computer are, if left to their own devices, equally dumb and only as good as the person driving them.

— Norman Foster

I'd say I never considered myself a great architect. I'm more of a creative problem solver with good taste and a soft…

— Maria Semple

“When you think about it, isn’t a person just a structure built in reaction to the landscape and the weather?”

— Gabrielle Zevin

The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.

— Eddie Rickenbacker

Ornamentation is the principal part of architecture, considered as a subject of fine art.

— John Ruskin

People say, "This is the world the way it is, and don't bother me." Then when somebody does something different, real architecture,…

— Frank Gehry

I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's…

— Zaha Hadid

I've always been a good student, made good enough grades to do well, and enjoyed a lot of different subjects. It wasn't…

— Evan Sharp

The dining room is a building; the bathroom is a building. If we scatter this single-program architecture inside of a domestic environment,…

— Jimenez Lai

“To reduce a library to simple architecture, bricks and mortar is a mistake. Similarly, to suggest a library is defined by the…

— Alan Bennett

The architecture or look fo a line is really important to me, and often ice can add something to the look of…

— Jeff Lowe

Since I am a Japanese man who's been building through the experience of Japanese architecture, my actual designs come from Japanese architectural…

— Tadao Ando

Here in Barcelona, it's the architects who built the buildings that made the city iconic who are the objects of admiration -…

— Julie Burchill

In the summer after kindergarten, a friend introduced me to the joys of building plastic model airplanes and warships. By the fourth…

— Steven Chu

“An architect is a generalist, not a specialist-the conductor of a symphony, not a virtuoso who plays every instrument perfectly. As a…

— Matthew Frederick

“Design is a fundamental human activity, relevant and useful to everyone. Anything humans create—be it product, communication or system—is a result of…

— Maggie Macnab

A total work of art is only possible in the context of the whole of society. Everyone will be a necessary co-creator…

— Joseph Beuys

I like structure - like driving: go past the school on the street, stay on the right side, no hitting the car,…

— Jean-Claude Van Damme

In architecture it isn't enough to just have the right building that works well. It can also be beautiful. It can also…

— Oscar Niemeyer

I used to read more when I was a kid than I do now. It was all sort of fuel for the…

— Frank Gehry

Well-established Supreme Court precedents indicate that states - like the states of Washington and Minnesota - have no equal-protection rights of their…

— David B. Rivkin

If you focus on design, you can call yourself a designer. If you focus on the implementation of your design, you can…

— Cameron Sinclair

Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested,…

— Richard Meier

The meaning resides in one's own experience, making the everyday the exceptional.

— Samuel Mockbee

I wanted to be an artist, because it's a much better scam than being an architect.

— Peter Marino

In Europe, architects consider themselves artists. They think they're special when they win a competition.

— Helmut Jahn

“[The building] had been designed by an architect, so it bore little resemblance to any normal structure.”

— Gary Corby

I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.

— Maya Lin

A structure is a bit like a story. People will go along with you - they see where you're going.

— Melvyn Bragg

I love '70s organic architecture. I am very influenced by the time when I grew up.

— Alexandre de Betak

The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.

— Stephen Gardiner

The Green Climate Fund is very much a strategic building block in the architecture for financing sustainable development.

— Isabella Lovin

The architect's role is to fight for a better world, where he can produce an architecture that serves everyone and not just…

— Oscar Niemeyer

Every Man is the Architect of his own Fortunes, but the Neighbours superintend the Construction.

— George Ade

I love when architects build a golf course that compliments the landscape rather than intrudes upon it.

— Michael Waltrip

Churches have given us great treasures such as music and architecture. Whether that pays for the harm they have done is another…

— Daniel Dennett

The job of buildings is to improve human relations: architecture must ease them, not make them worse.

— Ralph Erskine