Architecture Quotes

1029 Architecture quotes by 506 unique authors

You don't need to spend a lot of money on stuff when you have amazing architecture. — Nate Berkus
The strengths landscape architecture draws from its garden design heritage include: the Vitruvian design tradition of balancing utility, firmness and beauty; use of the word… — Tom Turner
Modernism', as a label, has currency in the arts, architecture, planning, landscape, politics, theology, cultural history and elsewhere. — Tom Turner
Everything in New Orleans is a good idea. Bijou temple-type cottages and lyric cathedrals side by side. Houses and mansions, structures of wild grace. Italianate,… — Bob Dylan
The Internet has created an incredible democratization of the architecture industry. — Cameron Sinclair
Of all forms of visible otherworldliness, it seems to me, the Gothic is at once the most logical and the most beautiful. It reaches up… — H. L. Mencken
Architecture approaches nearer than any other art to being irrevocable because it is so difficult to get rid of. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
If an architect wants to strengthen a decrepit arch, he increases the load laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly together. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The pyramids of Egypt will not last a moment compared to the daisy. — D. H. Lawrence
The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I've always liked traveling around Europe and seeing the architecture. The buildings in capital cities have been there for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of… — Joe Elliott
Modern architecture is not a style, it's an attitude — Marcel Breuer
Architecture is the king or queen of the arts, — Gaetano Pesce
I am sometimes visited by the heretical thought that there is no such thing as good and bad architecture, any more than there is good… — John Updike
Even the West has known the architecture of empty space, whose object, for thousands of years, has been less to construct divine houses, than to… — Andre Malraux
Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its separate… — Walter Gropius
Don't just look at buildings ... watch them. — John Ruskin
I like things that are kind of eclectic, when one thing doesn't go with another. That's why I love Rome. The town itself is that… — Giambattista Valli
Clearly, if a building is not functionally and technically in order, then it isn't architecture either, it's just a building. — Arne Jacobsen
Pay attention only to the form; emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling place always finds an inhabitant. — Andre Gide
The job of the architect becomes more difficult in this secular age. Where once he had a god to extol, he now has humans like… — Nikki Giovanni
Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture. — George Santayana
Information and inspiration are everywhere... history, art, architecture, everything an illustrator needs. Europe is, after all, the land that has generated most of the enduring… — John Howe
Architecture is either the prophecy of an unformed society or the tomb of a finished one. — Lewis Mumford
The secret of great cathedrals is that their proportions conform to cosmic laws, 'shaping' people who spend time in them. — Theodor Schwenk

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