Architecture Quotes

1029 Architecture quotes by 506 unique authors

The traditional notion of an architect having a vision of a building and then drawing it either on paper or on a computer and then… — Michael Hansmeyer
All architecture, which does not express serenity, fails in its spiritual mission. Thus, it has been a mistake to abandon the shelter of walls for… — Luis Barragan
There are a great many things about architecture that are hidden from the untrained eye. — Frank Gehry
I am obsessed with architecture. It is true, I am restless, trying to find myself as an architect and how best to contribute in this… — Frank Gehry
Architecture is not all about the design of the building and nothing else, it is also about the cultural setting and the ambience, the whole… — Michael Graves
Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place and it works over the generations because people go… — Frank Gehry
When the old way of seeing was displaced, a hollowness came into architecture. Our buildings show a constant effort to fill that void, to recapture… — Jonathan Hale
Chinese architecture has a complete organic structure; it contains both sensibility and purpose. — Wu Guanzhong
I've spent a lot of very happy times in Edinburgh as a result of playing virtually every festival since 1996. It's also a beautiful city… — Marcus Brigstocke
In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs. RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks Greek… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A spider conducts operations that resemble those of a weaver, and a bee puts to shame many an architect in the construction of her cells.… — Karl Marx
Architecture exhibits the greatest extent of the difference from nature which may exist in works of art. It involves all the powers of design, and… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. It is no doubt a sublimer effort of genius than the Greek style; but then… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Now, of course, architecture is a blind spot of our life in America today. How many millions of students go to the university to be… — Frank Lloyd Wright
I know we can't have a great architecture while it is only for the landlord. — Frank Lloyd Wright
Architecture isman'sgreat sense of himself embodied in a world of his own making. It may rise as high in quality only as its source because… — Frank Lloyd Wright
The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government. — Milton Friedman
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims. — R. Buckminster Fuller
Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building. — Thomas Fuller
Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator. — Antonio Gaudi
Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic. — Antonio Gaudi
The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist… — Paul Gauguin
Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness. — Frank Gehry
Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. 'The client made me do this.' 'The city made me do… — Frank Gehry
Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think… — Frank Gehry

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