Building Quotes

3027 Building quotes by 2084 unique authors

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
Well, I work out three to four times a week, in a gym, which - thank God - is right in my building here in… — Regis Philbin
Slow down and make building relationships as important as building projects. — Greg Mortenson
I try to take the time to appreciate and I certainly do appreciate and I do feel proud but that is probably one of the… — Orlando Bloom
Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough. — Robert Towne
When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble. — Edward Abbey

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