Architecture Quotes

1029 Architecture quotes by 506 unique authors

Madam de Stael pronounced architecture to be frozen music; so is statuary crystalized spirituality. — Louisa May Alcott
Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, that the sight of them may contribute to his mental health,… — John Ruskin
A tranquil city of good laws, fine architecture, and clean streets is like a classroom of obedient dullards, or a field of gelded bulls -… — Mark Helprin
While a great many other ideas and measures are of prime importance for the good life of the community, that which concerns its architectural expression… — Lewis Mumford
Metal buildings are the dream that Modern Architects had at the beginning of this century. It has finally come true, but they themselves don't realize… — David Byrne
But then architects don't build their own houses. — Damien Hirst
Painting can never show her nose in company with architecture but to have it snubbed. — J M W Turner
As technology advances at an alarming pace, the place of drawing remains as valid as ever in the creation of art and architecture. — Prince Charles
If you consider only utility, the things you build will soon be useless... nobody wants to be in it. — Roger Scruton
For a woman to go out alone into architecture is still very, very hard. It's still a man's world. — Zaha Hadid
The paintings have only ever been ways of exploring architecture. I don't see them as art. — Zaha Hadid
The architect must not only understand drawing, but music. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
You have to love writing a song and architecture. You have to give it a form. It is my job to create a sonic landscape.… — Keren Ann
I have always been interested in fashion as an informing design discipline: proportion structure, detail, materiality, texture, color and quality. With a heightened interest in,… — Charles Gwathmey
Architecture is the printing-press of all ages, and gives a history of the state of the society in which it was erected, from the cromlech… — Sydney, Lady Morgan
I've gradually fooled myself into becoming a real painter... I really just like to sit in my air-conditioned Rome painting studio surrounded by Medieval and… — Mark Kostabi
Any work of architecture that does not express serenity is a mistake. — Luis Barragan
I participated in the transformation of my era. I did it with clothes, which is surely less important than music, architecture, painting but whatever it's… — Yves Saint Laurent
Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being. — Luis Barragan
Only in intimate communion with solitude may man find himself. Solitude is good company and my architecture is not for those who fear or shun… — Luis Barragan
I have devoted myself to architecture as a sublime act of poetic imagination. Consequently, I am only a symbol for all those who have been… — Luis Barragan
[It is] the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination of architectural conceit and official bad taste. the Cathedral of… — Robert Moses
Melrose is the finest remaining specimen of Gothic architecture in Scotland. Some of the sculptured flowers in the cloister arches are remarkably beautiful and delicate,… — Bayard Taylor
When Moses was alive, these pyramids were a thousand years old. Here began the history of architecture. Here people learned to measure time by a… — Walter Cronkite
I just hand shoes on the wall. They're architecture you know. — Tori Amos

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