Architecture Quotes

1029 Architecture quotes by 506 unique authors

I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film… — Sydney Pollack
Actors become actors because they loved entertaining their family by putting on the lampshade and dancing around as a kid, ... That's not my personality.… — Jodie Foster
There's certain things in life that I love. One is architecture. And music, culture, food, people. New Orleans has all of that. — Lenny Kravitz
The building is a special place because of its architecture; But it's people who make it special by participating in it. — Charlie Chaplin
Allow the information to tell you how it wants to be displayed. As architecture is ‘frozen music’, information architecture is ‘frozen conversation’. Any good conversation… — Richard Saul Wurman
Good architecture lets nature in. — Mario Pei
The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living. — Stephen Gardiner
It wasn't that I had any great dream of being an architect. I just wanted to make things. Whether it was furniture, painting, interior design,… — Tadao Ando
When I was studying interior architecture, and playing around with glass because I really liked glass. There was one night when I blew a bubble… — Dale Chihuly
Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Architecture is the masterly, correct, and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in light: light and… — Le Corbusier
Find what gave you emotion; what the action was that gave you excitement. Then write it down making it clear so that the reader can… — Ernest Hemingway
The history of architecture is the history of the struggle for light. — Le Corbusier
Architecture which enters into a symbiosis with light does not merely create form in light, by day and at night, but allow light to become… — Richard Meier
The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams. — Jay Chiat
Everyone asks about how I'll feel about the tattoos and scars in thirty years. I always say: "I'll like them." I've always loved damaged monuments,… — Emma Forrest
For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem, - a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
You really can't function as a celebrity. Entertainers are celebrities. I'm an architect. I'm an artist. I make things. — Maya Lin
True architecture exists only where man stands in the center. — Alvar Aalto
Architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. Creative work is expressed in our time as a union of technology and humanity. — Kenzo Tange
Architects cannot teach nature anything. — Mark Twain
Greek architecture is the flowering of geometry. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The responsibility of an architect is to create a sense of order, a sense of place, a sense of relationship. — Richard Meier
Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional… — Thom Mayne
Architecture is not about building the impossible, which we can do if we have enough money and enough tools and enough computers. It is about… — Moshe Safdie

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