Architecture Quote by Kevin McCloud

True, there are architects so called in this country, and I have heard of one at least possessed with the idea of making architectural…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Martin Filler

All architecture, classical or not, must have some sense of order, and order is much harder to achieve without the straight lines and right…

— Martin Filler

Borne out of this, starting around the 17th Century was the Baroque era. It is my view that it is one of the architectural…

— Harry Seidler

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

Modern architecture is not a style, it's an attitude

— Marcel Breuer

“The word “baroque” originating as a Portuguese term for the peculiar beauty of a deformed, uneven pearl, suggests a range of artistic styles in…

— John E. Wills Jr

Minimalism is the pursuit of the essence of things, not the appearance.

— Claudio Silvestrin

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

— Moshe Safdie

I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody…

— Thom Mayne

Architecture is art, nothing else.

— Philip Johnson