Architecture Quotes

1029 Architecture quotes by 506 unique authors

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar. — Henry David Thoreau
To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of… — Leo Tolstoy
Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal. — Lionel Trilling
The thing about Chicago is that it really isn't like any other place. The architecture and the layout of the city are the best. I'm… — Vince Vaughn
The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in. — Voltaire
I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style. — Vera Wang
I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning. — Andy Warhol
I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far… — Roger Waters
To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You… — Ai Weiwei
I see the Beijing National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted Herzog and De Meuron's invitation to collaborate on the design, and our proposal… — Ai Weiwei
All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable. — Frank Lloyd Wright
Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity. — Frank Lloyd Wright
I feel coming on a strange disease - humility. — Frank Lloyd Wright
That Moorish architecture is all over the place, of course. It affects me everywhere I see it, as it does so many people. But Brand… — Jim Woodring
Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them. — William Wordsworth
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age. — Frank Lloyd Wright
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization. — Frank Lloyd Wright
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. — Frank Lloyd Wright
A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart. — Frank Lloyd Wright
An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site. — Frank Lloyd Wright
Space is the breath of art. — Frank Lloyd Wright
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore… — Frank Lloyd Wright
Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived. — Martin Filler
Architecture was the last of the major professions to devise a formal 'cursus honorum' before its practice could be undertaken. — Martin Filler
Truly great architecture always transcends its stated function, sometimes in unanticipated ways. — Martin Filler

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