Architecture Quote by John Updike

Architecture is art, nothing else.

— Philip Johnson

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

— Moshe Safdie

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

— Leon Krier

Buildings in modern cities have lost their metaphoric aspect. Much contemporary architecture is very fragmented and busy on the outside. It's like a skin…

— Mario Botta

Some people think architecture is about the genius sketch; I don't. Great architecture is a collaboration among a lot of people over a long…

— Joshua Prince-Ramus

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

— Louis Kahn

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

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

— I. M. Pei

Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.

— Goldwin Smith

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

Architecture is the real battleground of the spirit.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

“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