Architecture Quotes

1029 Architecture quotes by 506 unique authors

Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times. — Richard Rogers
Less is more. — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins. — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Whatever good things we build end up building us. — Jim Rohn
Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued. — Jean Rostand
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it. — John Ruskin
It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect. — John Ruskin
No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only… — John Ruskin
No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple. — John Ruskin
An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by… — John Ruskin
It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I… — John Ruskin
Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men. — Friedrich Schiller
The Internet is probably the most important technological advancement of my lifetime. Its strength lies in its open architecture and its ability to allow a… — Adam Savage
Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all. — Harry Seidler
My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art. — Clara Schumann
Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how… — Herbert Simon
Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is. — Robert Smithson
Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos. — Stephen Sondheim
I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be… — Barbra Streisand
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears. — Gertrude Stein
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal. — Igor Stravinsky
One my favorite things is to go to the provinces of Russia and see the 18th century wood churches with the onion dome architecture. These… — Andre Leon Talley
Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea. — Yoshio Taniguchi
That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind. — James Taylor

Who Wrote These Architecture Quotes

506 authors contributed a total of 1,029 Architecture Quotes, led by these top contributors: