Architecture Quotes

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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
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
Architecture is a dangerous mix of power and importance. — Rem Koolhaas
One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again. — Renzo Piano
To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history, but to articulate it. — Daniel Libeskind
In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture. — Nancy Banks-Smith
In pure architecture the smallest detail should have a meaning or serve a purpose. — Unknown Author
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
Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder. — Daniel Libeskind
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
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
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
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
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
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
Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul. — Ernest Dimnet
It is therefore indisputable that the limbs of architecture are derived from the limbs of man. — Michelangelo
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
Among the planets of the arts, architecture is the dark side of the moon. — Unknown Author
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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