"Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere……" — George Santayana
"Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture."
More Architecture Quotes
- I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one. — Luis Barragan
- My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience. — Luis Barragan
- Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money. — Ambrose Bierce
- No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language. — Theodore Bikel
- Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat… — Alvar Aalto
- We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and… — Alvar Aalto
- A picture is worth a thousand words. — Napoleon Bonaparte
- Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split… — Alvar Aalto
- Architecture is inhabited sculpture. — Constantin Brancusi
- The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit… — Alvar Aalto
- I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in… — Dan Brown
- Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases.… — Dan Brown