Architecture Quotes
1029 Architecture quotes by 506 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.
— Ernest Dimnet
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It is therefore indisputable that the limbs of architecture are derived from the limbs of man.
— Michelangelo
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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
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Among the planets of the arts, architecture is the dark side of the moon.
— Unknown Author
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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
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The genius of architecture seems to have shed its maledictions over this land.
— Thomas Jefferson
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Form follows function.
— Louis Sullivan
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Forests were the first temples of the Divinity, and it is in the forests that men have grasped the first idea of architecture.
— François-René de Chateaubriand
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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
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[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
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When I see beautiful clothes, I want to keep them, preserve them... Clothes, like architecture and art, reflect an era.
— Azzedine Alaia
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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
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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
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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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