Building Quotes

3027 Building quotes by 2084 unique authors

Everything I do, whether it's producing or signing an artist, always starts with the songs. When I'm listening, I'm looking for a balance that you… — Rick Rubin
But the most amazing, almost miraculous news is that the majority of the building is still intact. Due to one of the most astonishingly intelligent… — Unknown Author
Recreational development is a job not of building roads into lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind. — Aldo Leopold
I do think we need for a troop to be able to house his family. That's an important part of building morale in the military. — George W. Bush
It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution. — Le Corbusier
The city of Chandigarh is planned to human scale. It puts us in touch with the infinite cosmos and nature. It provides us with places… — Le Corbusier
By law, all buildings should be white. — Le Corbusier
We must be as familiar with the functions of our building as with our materials. We must learn what a building can be, what it… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of the old. Where else can we find such unity of material, construction… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work. Let us lead them into the healthy world… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes… — Arne Jacobsen
I have come to the conviction that once one embarks on a concept for a building, this concept has to be exaggerated and overstated and… — Eero Saarinen
The room within is the great fact about the building. — Frank Lloyd Wright
True ornament is not a matter of prettifying externals. It is organic with the structure it adorns, whether a person, a building, or a park.… — Frank Lloyd Wright
A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there. — Frank Lloyd Wright
We want to create the purely organic building, boldly emanating its inner laws, free of untruths or ornamentation. — Walter Gropius
The ultimate aim of all artistic activity is building! ... Architects, sculptors, painters, we must all get back to craft! ... The artist is a… — Walter Gropius
A modern building should derive its architectural significance solely from the vigour and consequence of its own organic proportions. It must be true to itself,… — Walter Gropius
The sun never knew how great it was until it hit the side of a building. — Louis Kahn
Every building must have... its own soul. — Louis Kahn
In architecture it isn't enough to just have the right building that works well. It can also be beautiful. It can also be different. It… — Oscar Niemeyer
Our cities with their swollen populations and cliff dwelling high-rise buildings are breeding places for loneliness. Neighborhoods crumble under the housing development bulldozers and families… — Allan Fromme
I grew up in an artists community in New York, in a building that was government-subsidised for artists. No one made any money, but they… — Vin Diesel
My father and his brothers were all lawyers, so I think that the expectation was probably for me to grow up to be an attorney,… — Steve Case
Here, the churches seemed to shrink away into eroding corners. They seem to have ceased to be essential parts of American life. They no longer… — Sean O'Casey

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