Architecture Quote by Alain de Botton

Complexity excites the mind, and order rewards it. In the garden, one finds both, including vanishingly small orders too complex to spot, and orders…

— Diane Ackerman

Order seems to come from searching for disorder, and awkwardness from searching for harmony or likeness, or the following of a system. The truest…

— Fairfield Porter

Architecture has the power to create order out of unholy confusion.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Both science and art have to do with ordered complexity.

— Lancelot Law Whyte

Creating simplicity often makes the heart leap; order has been restored, the crooked made straight. But order is understanding that things cannot be made…

— Marina Warner

When circumstances defy order, order should bend or break: anomalies and uncertainties give validity to architecture.

— Robert Venturi

For order represents our fear and nervousness. We create ordered interiors as a protest over the passing of things, to define our mortal lives…

— Gertrude Diamant

The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds.

— Francis Bacon

Design is the conscious effort to impose a meaningful order

— Victor Papanek

Orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for the nature of organized systems in general or for those created by man in particular.…

— Rudolf Arnheim

Order is a necessary condition for anything the human mind is to understand.

— Rudolf Arnheim

The human mind inherently seeks intelligible order. Thus the conviction that such an order exists to be found is a crucial assumption.

— Nancy Pearcey