Architecture Quote by Annabelle Selldorf

I have a very strong sense of architecture in my novels. But at first it's sometimes like building a doorknob before you have a…

— Nicole Krauss

Architects and painters know precisely what they are about as long as they deal with material phenomena.... But when they come to the aesthetics…

— Carl von Clausewitz

There was a time when I experienced architecture without thinking about it,

— Peter Zumthor

I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity.

— I. M. Pei

Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it up and we can make…

— Maya Lin

The most important thing, in order to forge one's own creative personality, is to travel, to see different environments, different cultures. I wanted to…

— Shigeru Ban

I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.

— Tadao Ando

All architecture, classical or not, must have some sense of order, and order is much harder to achieve without the straight lines and right…

— Martin Filler

I am very interested in architecture. I've been asked if I'd ever direct, but me, I'd rather build. It's very similar to directing, because…

— Brad Pitt

There's a very mathematical, mechanical side to architecture, and I probably lean more toward that aspect of it, though I'm terrible at numbers. But…

— Eric Dane

The perennial architectural debate has always been, and will continue to be, about art versus use, visions versus pragmatism, aesthetics versus social responsibility. In…

— Ada Louise Huxtable

When you want to do something that is challenging or interesting or new, you never find the place. All the places are obvious or…

— Miuccia Prada