Architecture Quotes

1029 Architecture quotes by 506 unique authors

There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for… — James Henry Breasted
The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film - whether it's history, psychology,… — George Lucas
I think that as good architecture enhances a city, a good cut enhances the definition and expression of a face. — Vidal Sassoon
For me the working of hair is architecture with a human element. — Vidal Sassoon
If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture... — Oscar Wilde
Eroticism, hallucinogenic drugs, nuclear science, Gaudi's Gothic architecture, my love of gold - there is a common denominator in all of it: God is present… — Salvador Dali
Today, architecture is invention. It isn't enough to just be rational - It must also be beautiful. — Oscar Niemeyer
The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house. — Thomas Reid
I never talked about architecture with my father, which I regret — Bernard Tschumi
When I see architecture that moves me, I hear music in my inner ear — Frank Lloyd Wright
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
We need better architecture and planning: more imaginatively exciting, more involving, more our own. — Robin Boyd
Solemn Australians think that an interest in design is a superficial and trivial interest. This is actually an improvement, they used to think it effeminate… — Robin Boyd
Many new churches, I regret to say, can be described from the design point of view only as holy terrors. — Robin Boyd
Australia is, in fact, an old man's bureaucracy. — Robin Boyd
The suburb was the major element of Australian society. — Robin Boyd
Yet the small house, probably more than anything else that man has done, has made the face of Australia and to an extent the faces… — Robin Boyd
Insects influenced the shape of the Australian house. Some, like the white ant and lthe Lyctus borer, worked quietly and invisibly until a little shower… — Robin Boyd
Adelaide was the first city in Australia, if not in the world, to provide for the health and recreation of all its citizens. — Robin Boyd
Australia's is a special kind of philistinism, an immovable materialism which puts art and ideas of any kind deliberately and firmly to one side to… — Robin Boyd
Habits are the invisible architecture of everyday life. — Gretchen Rubin
When we come to understand architecture as the essential nature of all harmonious structure we will see that it is the architecture of music that… — Frank Lloyd Wright
Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois. — Le Corbusier
I love old architecture. I love collecting furniture, mixing really earthy things with the very polished. I don't come from an interiors background, so I'm… — Jason Wu
Architecture can't force people to connect, it can only plan the crossing points, remove barriers, and make the meeting places useful and attractive. — Denise Scott Brown

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