Architecture Quote by Ada Louise Huxtable

The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.

— Ada Louise Huxtable

Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passions of an emperor's love wrought in living stones.

— Edwin Arnold

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

— Lewis Mumford

“As I grew up, I knew that as a building (Fenway Park) was on the level of Mount Olympus, the Pyramid at Giza, the…

— Bart Giamatti

in the place I am from ... a grave is topped off with a huge mound of loose earth - carelessly, as if piled…

— Jamaica Kincaid

Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.

— Louise Bogan

Most of the stone a nation hammers goes toward its tomb only. It buries itself alive.

— Henry David Thoreau

A building has at least two lives - the one imagined by its maker and the life it lives afterward - and they are…

— Rem Koolhaas

As I descend the stairs, I can’t help brushing my fingers along the unblemished white marble walls. So cold and beautiful. Even in the…

— Suzanne Collins

It's sad to see these old buildings go because they have so many memories, and it's a real personal kind of thing when you…

— Clarence Clemons

Architecture, either practically considered or viewed as an art of taste, is a subject so important and comprehensive in itself, that volumes would be…

— Andrew Jackson Downing