Architecture Quote by John Ruskin

A railroad is like a lie you have to keep building it to make it stand.

— Mark Twain

In all the history of organized labor, from the earliest times to the present day, no body of union workingmen ever served in a…

— Eugene V. Debs

Until the first blow fell, no one was convinced that Penn Station really would be demolished, or that New York would permit this monumental…

— Ada Louise Huxtable

Decoration is asked to be 'merely' pleasing, 'merely' embellishing, and the 'functional' logic of Modernism leaves no room, apparently, for such 'mereness.' This is…

— Clement Greenberg

One glance proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that these unions (railroad craft unions) are exceedingly useful to the corporations; and to the…

— Eugene V. Debs

Conductors make too much fuss about conductors! Humility and hard work are virtues. We're nothing without our musicians.

— Simon Rattle

I viewed the station as a place, a terrain where I could put a new architecture in place. The station was, of course, an…

— Gae Aulenti

The art of decoration requires the most sophisticated and self-indulgent skills. Its aim has always been to sate the senses as gloriously as possible.…

— Ada Louise Huxtable

“The modern architects are incorrect in their thinking. Ornament is not a crime. It is tactile, invigorating, life-sustaining, and human.”

— Kristen Wagner

“I'm a writer and I'm feeling like death, as you would too if you'd just flown into Grand Rapids, Michigan at some ungodly hour…

— Douglas Adams

The greatest architectural illusion is not Baroque fancy or Victorian flamboyant, but minimalism.

— Kevin McCloud

Why should the railroad employees be parceled out among a score of different organizations? They are all employed in the same service. Their interests…

— Eugene V. Debs