Architectural Quote by Annabelle Selldorf

I think of architecture as a piece of clothing to wrap around human beings

— Toyo Ito

Photography intervenes in a very strange way. It makes the streets, gates, squares of the city into illustrations of a trashy novel, draws off…

— Louis Aragon

The fundamental belief in the authenticity of photographs explains why photographs of people no longer living and of vanished architecture are so melancholy.

— Beaumont Newhall

I started collecting art... simply because I wanted pictures to hang on the wall. I noticed what a difference a picture could make to…

— Michael Audain

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

— Ada Louise Huxtable

Dealing with architecture brings me very close to the state of mind required to make pictures. One also needs an old seeing eye, appropriate…

— Max Dupain

Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, that the sight of them may contribute to his mental…

— John Ruskin

If you scratch through the deceitful artifice of contemporary photography, you'll find the real artifice underneath.

— Douglas McCulloh

One of the magical things about photography is the transformation that takes place when you photograph something. Something that inherently has very little going…

— Grant Mudford

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

— Teresa Palmer

The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how…

— Thom Mayne

Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the…

— Zaha Hadid