Architecture Quote by Charlotte Brontë

“The Greatest architecture is building charter”

— Lewis R. Korns

“Architecture is not a business, not a career, but a crusade and a consecration to a joy that justifies the existence of the earth.”

— Ayn Rand

“A building has integrity, just as a man and just as seldom! It must be true to its own idea, have its own form,…

— Ayn Rand

“Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for the masonry of to-day.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it; Did you think it was in the white or gray stone?…

— Walt Whitman

“You can build something beautiful from stones that are put in your way.”

— Erich Kästner

“Say on, sayers! sing on, singers! Delve! mould! pile the words of the earth! Work on, age after age, nothing is to be lost,…

— Walt Whitman

It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of…

— David Allan Coe

“Love of ruins for an architect, he claimed, was quite natural, at least after a long career.”

— Josip Novakovich

“architecture to spiritually uplift and thought it was a very bad idea to build functional, uninspired blocks of flats that would depress both their…

— Menna van Praag

Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passions of an emperor's love wrought in living stones.

— Edwin Arnold

“The notion of buildings that speak helps us to place at the very centre of our architectural conundrums the question of the values we…

— Alain de Botton