Architecture Quote by Herbert Spencer

Life may as properly be called an art as any other.

— Henry Fielding

Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.

— Barnett Newman

Art is a spiritual, immaterial respite from the hardships of life.

— Fernando Botero

Artists, whatever their medium, make selections from the abounding materials of life, and organize these selections into works that are under the control of…

— Jane Jacobs

Sculpture and painting are moments of life; poetry is life itself.

— Walter Savage Landor

To realize life in the abstract as noble or beautiful or humane, to set it forth so with radiance upon it, that is civilization…

— George Edward Woodberry

The modern world thinks of art as very important: something close to the meaning of life.

— Alain de Botton

“life having its elaborate masterpieces, just as poetry has, or sculpture, or painting.”

— Oscar Wilde

Art, if one employs this term in the broad sense that includes poetry within its realm, is an art of creation laden with ideals,…

— Ivan Turgenev

Art and architecture -- all the arts -- do not have to exist in isolation,

— Donald Judd

This concern which interests us more than anything else: the blurring of the distinction between art and life.

— Marcel Duchamp

Now Art, used collectively for painting, sculpture, architecture and music, is the mediatress between, and reconciler of, nature and man. It is, therefore, the…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge