Architecture Quotes

1029 Architecture quotes by 506 unique authors

Here, then, is what I wanted to tell you of my architecture. I created it with courage and idealism, but also with an awareness of… — Oscar Niemeyer
The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all… — Honore de Balzac
Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It is at least… — Frank Lloyd Wright
Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it up and we can make models… — Maya Lin
The first gesture of an architect is to draw a perimeter; in other words, to separate the microclimate from the macro space outside. This in… — Unknown Author
Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul. — Ernest Dimnet
It is therefore indisputable that the limbs of architecture are derived from the limbs of man. — Michelangelo
Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into… — Frank Stella
Among the planets of the arts, architecture is the dark side of the moon. — Unknown Author
For many parts of Nature can neither be invented with sufficient subtlety, nor demonstrated with sufficient perspicuity, nor accommodated unto use with sufficient dexterity, without… — Francis Bacon
The genius of architecture seems to have shed its maledictions over this land. — Thomas Jefferson
The more I examine the universe and study the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must… — Freeman Dyson
Architecture is for the young. If our teenagers don't get architecture - if they are not inspired, (then) we won't have the architecture that we… — Frank Lloyd Wright
One of my favorite vacation places is Miami, because of the people, the water and the beach - of course - and the architecture on… — Oksana Baiul
The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical. — Maya Lin
The laws of nature are the rules according to which the effects are produced; but there must be a cause which operates according to these… — Thomas Reid
We've been fighting from the beginning for organic architecture. That is, architecture where the whole is to the part as the part is to the… — Frank Lloyd Wright
Form follows function. — Louis Sullivan
Forests were the first temples of the Divinity, and it is in the forests that men have grasped the first idea of architecture. — FranÃ§ois-RenÃ© de Chateaubriand
Increased knowledge of heredity means increased power of control over the living thing, and as we come to understand more and more the architecture of… — Unknown Author
[Mathematics] is security. Certainty. Truth. Beauty. Insight. Structure. Architecture. I see mathematics, the part of human knowledge that I call mathematics, as one thing-one great,… — Paul Halmos
When I see beautiful clothes, I want to keep them, preserve them... Clothes, like architecture and art, reflect an era. — Azzedine Alaia
And just as we acquaint ourselves with materials, just as we must understand functions, so we must become familiar with the psychological and spiritual factors… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day… — John Baldacci
A novel is a piece of architecture. It's not random wallowings or confessional diaries. It's a building-it has to have walls and floors and the… — John Irving

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