Architecture Quote by Frank Lloyd Wright

“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

“Beneath the pleasure generated by the juxtaposition of order and complexity, we can identify the subsidiary architectural virtue of balance. Beauty is a likely…

— Alain de Botton

May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through…

— Ralph Thomas Walker

“masterpieces of beauty, craftsmanship, and stability, all erected”

— Robert Greene

“Contemporary architecture was of necessity mediocre.”

— Georges Rodenbach

“Nobility is the perfection in each thing of its proper nature.”

— Dante Alighieri

“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

“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

Architecture, either practically considered or viewed as an art of taste, is a subject so important and comprehensive in itself, that volumes would be…

— Andrew Jackson Downing

“A growth decorated in warmth of uniformity, wrapped as project. Your life's tomorrow thrust at your steps, crowning you architect. Moving steps upon steps,…

— Anyaele Sam Chiyson

“architecture is a way of life”

— Barwa

“Analogising architecture with ethics helps us to discern that there is unlikely ever to be a single source of beauty in a building, just…

— Alain de Botton