Architecture Quote by John Ruskin

No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

— John Ruskin

Architecture is always the will of the age conceived as space - nothing else. Until this simple truth is clearly recognized, the struggle over…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired…

— Victor Hugo

Somehow, architecture alters the way we think about the world and the way we behave. Any serious architecture, as a litmus test, has to…

— Thom Mayne

I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity.

— I. M. Pei

Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived.

— Martin Filler

Architecture is either the prophecy of an unformed society or the tomb of a finished one.

— Lewis Mumford

I am sometimes visited by the heretical thought that there is no such thing as good and bad architecture, any more than there is…

— John Updike

The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion, to produce…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Building becomes architecture only when the mind of man consciously takes it and tries with all his resources to make it beautiful, to put…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“Architecture is a fuzzy amalgamation of ancient knowledge and contemporary practice, an awkward way to look at the world and an inadequate medium to…

— Rem Koolhaas

“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