Architecture Quote by John Ruskin

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

— John Ruskin

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

— Martin Filler

If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect.

— Philip Johnson

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

— John Ruskin

The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions.

— Helmut Jahn

If the design of the building be originally bad, the only virtue it can ever possess will be signs of antiquity.

— John Ruskin

A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.

— Ayn Rand

Authentic architecture is not the incarnation of the spirit of the age but of the spirit, full stop.

— Leon Krier

Architecture is art, nothing else.

— Philip Johnson

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

— I. M. Pei

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

Most of the wonderful places in the world were not made by architects but by the people.

— Christopher Alexander