Architecture Quotes
1029 quotes by 506 authors
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Let us today seek to find that place within each of us where dreams are made, where our highest aspirations take shape. Let us confirm…
— Dennis Kucinich
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I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I…
— Isaac Asimov
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Architecture is a dangerous mix of power and importance.
— Rem Koolhaas
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One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.
— Renzo Piano
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To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history, but to articulate it.
— Daniel Libeskind
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In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.
— Nancy Banks-Smith
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In pure architecture the smallest detail should have a meaning or serve a purpose.
— Unknown Author
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Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, Are merely shadows cast by…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder.
— Daniel Libeskind
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Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space ... On the one hand it's about shelter, but…
— Zaha Hadid
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Here, then, is what I wanted to tell you of my architecture. I created it with courage and idealism, but also with an awareness of…
— Oscar Niemeyer
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The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all…
— Honore de Balzac
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Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It is at least…
— Frank Lloyd Wright
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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 models…
— Maya Lin
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The first gesture of an architect is to draw a perimeter; in other words, to separate the microclimate from the macro space outside. This in…
— Unknown Author
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Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.
— Ernest Dimnet
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It is therefore indisputable that the limbs of architecture are derived from the limbs of man.
— Michelangelo
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Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into…
— Frank Stella
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Among the planets of the arts, architecture is the dark side of the moon.
— Unknown Author
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For many parts of Nature can neither be invented with sufficient subtlety, nor demonstrated with sufficient perspicuity, nor accommodated unto use with sufficient dexterity, without…
— Francis Bacon
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