Architectural Quotes
104 quotes by 80 authors
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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
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Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The decorator of Las Colimas must have been a great admirer of both early Aztec and late Taco Bell architectural styles.
— Ilona Andrews
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Dude, my hair is like an architectural structure. It’s like… a building.
— Taylor Swift
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Light is architectural. It is sculptural.
— Robert Wilson
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My wife and I are art collectors and architectural crazies.
— Louis Susman
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It fills one with a sense of architectural possibility.
— Paul Goldberger
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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
Who Wrote These Architectural Quotes
80 authors contributed a total of 104 Architectural Quotes, led by these top contributors: