Architecture Quotes

1029 Architecture quotes by 506 unique authors

Architecture is invention. — Oscar Niemeyer
The only legitimate artists in England are the architects. — Benjamin Haydon
A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People ask… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines, but was headlong sent with… — John Milton
Architecture aims at Eternity — Christopher Wren
Architecture has its political Use; publick Buildings being the Ornament of a Country; it establishes a Nation, draws People and Commerce; makes the People love… — Christopher Wren
The elms of New England! They are as much a part of her beauty as the columns of the Parthenon were the glory of its… — Henry Ward Beecher
What is wanted in architecture, as in so many things, is a man. ... One suggestion might be made-no profession in England has done its… — Benjamin Disraeli
New York is the cubist, the futurist city. It expresses in its architecture, its life, its spirit, the modern thought. — Francis Picabia
Man, there's another freedom out there, and it comes from somewhere else, and that somewhere else is the place I'm interested in. — Frank Gehry
When a building is as good as that one, f#*@ the art. — Philip Johnson
Pertaining to a certain order of architecture, otherwise known as Normal American. Most of the public buildings of the United States are of the Ramshackle… — Ambrose Bierce
When does a building actually become a built? — Le Corbusier
Architecture is to make us know and remember who we are. — Geoffrey Jellicoe
I don't think of form as a kind of architecture. The architecture is the result of the forming. It is the kinesthetic and visual sense… — Roy Lichtenstein
Where do architects and designers get their ideas? The answer, of course, is mainly from other architects and designers, so is it mere casuistry to… — Nancy Banks-Smith
But what if we are dealing with fools? — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Commodity, firmness, delight... — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
Unless you took courses in architecture, engineering, or pre-med, the rest of your liberal arts education hardly prepares you for life as the business warrior… — Gene Simmons
If you think good architecture is expensive, try bad architecture. — Brian Foote
He who does not master the nude cannot understand the principles of architecture. — Michelangelo
It's always helpful to look outside of the web for your inspiration, to places where you might not at first expect to find a solution.… — Andy Clark
The exchange between different cultures can not possibly be seen as a threat, when it is friendly. But I believe that the dissatisfaction with the… — Amartya Sen
My weakness ... is architecture. I think of my work as ephemeral architecture, dedicated to the beauty of the female body. — Christian Dior
The art and architecture of the past that we know is that which remains. The best is that which remains where it was painted, placed… — Donald Judd

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