Architecture Quotes

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I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one. — Luis Barragan
My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience. — Luis Barragan
Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money. — Ambrose Bierce
No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language. — Theodore Bikel
Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of… — Alvar Aalto
We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of… — Alvar Aalto
A picture is worth a thousand words. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good… — Alvar Aalto
Architecture is inhabited sculpture. — Constantin Brancusi
The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit of our endeavour to build… — Alvar Aalto
I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in a Robert Langdon thriller. — Dan Brown
Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids… — Dan Brown
Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die. — Daniel Burnham
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. — Samuel Butler
The history of art is the history of revivals. — Samuel Butler
Architecture theory is very interesting. — David Byrne
A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress. — Lord Byron
To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect. — Alexander Calder
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. — Al Capp
In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture,… — Adam Carolla

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