Architecture Quotes

1029 Architecture quotes by 506 unique authors

Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he… — Louis Kahn
Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball. — Louis Kahn
I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and… — Donna Karan
The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid. — Thomas a Kempis
Art is man's expression of his joy in labor. — Henry A. Kissinger
People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to… — Rem Koolhaas
Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning. — Rem Koolhaas
Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the… — Rem Koolhaas
I think about my work every minute of the day. — Jeff Koons
The principle of art is to pause, not bypass. — Jerzy Kosinski
A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires. — Hedy Lamarr
All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in… — T.E. Lawrence
Minimal art went nowhere. — Sol LeWitt
Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want… — Maya Lin
I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me. — Maya Lin
I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination. — Maya Lin
Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have. — Maya Lin
Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the… — Maya Lin
For the most part things never get built the way they were drawn. — Maya Lin
The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person. — Abraham Lincoln
Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise. — Adolf Loos
Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a… — Audre Lorde
Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music. — Christian Louboutin
Talking about music is like dancing about architecture. — Steve Martin
Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give,… — Henri Matisse

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