Architecture Quote by Goldwin Smith

I'm not a religious person. But, when I look at a beautiful cathedral, what brings awe, what induces awe is the idea that architecture,…

— Jason Silva

“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

True, there are architects so called in this country, and I have heard of one at least possessed with the idea of making architectural…

— Henry David Thoreau

I have devoted myself to architecture as a sublime act of poetic imagination. Consequently, I am only a symbol for all those who have…

— Luis Barragan

When I think of a place of worship, I think of a place where one can sit and be reminded of all the things…

— Richard Meier

Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, that the sight of them may contribute to his mental…

— John Ruskin

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

There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts.

— Moshe Safdie

The practice of architecture is the most delightful of all pursuits. Also, next to agriculture, it is the most necessary to man. One must…

— Philip Johnson

“I think that men have no right to profess themselves architects hastily, without having climbed from the steps of these studies and thus, nursed…

— Vitruvius

“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

How beautiful to have the church always open, so that every tired wayfaring man may come in and be soothed by all that art…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson