Architectural Quotes

104 quotes by 80 authors

When Oscar Niemeyer died on December 5, 2012, ten days before his 105th birthday, he was universally regarded as the very last of the twentieth… — Martin Filler
Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains. — Henry Ward Beecher
Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstores, recording studios and film studios of the world. Everything belongs to… — William S. Burroughs
It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value. Acquaintance with grief turns out to be one of the more unusual… — Alain de Botton
Potassium cyanide," says the talent wrangler as she leans over to pick up a paper napkin off the floor. "Found naturally in the cassava or… — Chuck Palahniuk
Houses, like people, are apt to become rather eccentric if left too much on their own; this house was the architectural equivalent of an old… — Susanna Clarke
Work on a good piece of writing proceeds on three levels: a musical one, where it is composed; an architectural one, where it is constructed;… — Walter Benjamin
The decorator of Las Colimas must have been a great admirer of both early Aztec and late Taco Bell architectural styles. — Ilona Andrews
Dude, my hair is like an architectural structure. Itâ€™s likeâ€¦ a building. — Taylor Swift
The size thing is not some gimmick or attention-getting trick but a genuine undercurrent of the work. Frank Gehry for instance likes to imagine his… — Michael Heizer
Good buildings make and are made by their settings, and they are appropriately different in different locations. Climate, culture, topography and materials have helped create… — Jaquelin T. Robertson
I wear the same black suit. I have five of them. I pair them with a red scarf. I was wearing a red scarf when… — Bernard Tschumi
The ultimate pleasure of architecture lies in the most forbidden parts of the architectural act, where limits are perverted and prohibitions are transgressed. — Bernard Tschumi
Snohetta promotes a more democratic workplace atmosphere than most other architectural offices. This may merely reflect prevalent employment practices in Scandinavia, but Snohetta places a… — Martin Filler
There is no sadder tale in the annals of architecture than the virtual disappearance of the defining architectural form of the Modern Movement - publicly… — Martin Filler
The centuries-old history and culture of India, majestic architectural monuments and museums of Delhi, Agra and Mumbai have a unique attractive force. — Vladimir Putin
Light is architectural. It is sculptural. — Robert Wilson
My wife and I are art collectors and architectural crazies. — Louis Susman
It fills one with a sense of architectural possibility. — Paul Goldberger
For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The… — James Rouse

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