Architecture Quote by Kristen Wagner

Ornamentation is the principal part of architecture, considered as a subject of fine art.

— John Ruskin

But the building's identity resided in the ornament.

— Louis Sullivan

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

“… architects are not acting for themselves but on behalf of others, and this means acting ethically. It is to ethics that we now turn.”

— Jeremy Till

True ornament is not a matter of prettifying externals. It is organic with the structure it adorns, whether a person, a building, or a…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“It's easy to dismiss design - to relegate it to mere ornament, the prettifying of places and objects to disguise their banality. But that…

— Daniel H. Pink

Architects must have a razor-sharp sense of individuality.

— Richard Neutra

As architects we have a responsibility to society

— Richard Rogers

“Writing on architecture is not like history or poetry.”

— Vitruvius Pollio

“Say on, sayers! sing on, singers! Delve! mould! pile the words of the earth! Work on, age after age, nothing is to be lost,…

— Walt Whitman

The perennial architectural debate has always been, and will continue to be, about art versus use, visions versus pragmatism, aesthetics versus social responsibility. In…

— Ada Louise Huxtable

“Analogising architecture with ethics helps us to discern that there is unlikely ever to be a single source of beauty in a building, just…

— Alain de Botton