Architecture Quotes
1029 quotes by 538 authors
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I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.
— Luis Barragan
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My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.
— Luis Barragan
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Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.
— Ambrose Bierce
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No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
— Theodore Bikel
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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
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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
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A picture is worth a thousand words.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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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
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Architecture is inhabited sculpture.
— Constantin Brancusi
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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
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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
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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
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Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.
— Daniel Burnham
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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
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The history of art is the history of revivals.
— Samuel Butler
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Architecture theory is very interesting.
— David Byrne
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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
— Lord Byron
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To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.
— Alexander Calder
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Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
— Al Capp
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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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