Art Quote by Edvard Grieg

Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wanted... to build dwellings for men in which they might…

— Edvard Grieg

Bach and Beethoven erected temples and churches on the heights. I only wanted to build dwellings for men in which they might feel happy…

— Stephen Hough

“The church tower, firm in line, soaring unfalteringly to its tapering point, topped with red tiles and broad in the roof, an earthly building…

— Franz Kafka

We used to build temples, and museums are about as close as secular society dares to go in facing up to the idea that…

— Alain de Botton

“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

There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old, and the same today as it has ever been. The great…

— Christopher Alexander

Personally, one of the greatest sources of inspiration for my work has been architecture. I've had the chance to see so many exquisite structures,…

— Gauri Khan

I just want to build the best buildings. It's not about me, it's about the buildings, creating a space where society can gather and…

— Santiago Calatrava

The purpose of architecture is to shelter and enhance man’s life on earth and to fulfill his belief in the nobility of his existence,

— Eero Saarinen

Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of the old. Where else can we find such unity of material,…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

In the evenings the art of building gave way to that of music, which is architecture, too, though invisible.

— Marguerite Yourcenar

“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