Architecture Quote by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Download Open image “Commodity, firmness, delight...” — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Architecture Commodity Delight Firmness
Well building hat three conditions. Commodity, firmness, and delight. — Henry Wotton Copy Share Image
Riches, honors and pleasure are the sweets which destroy the mind's appetite for heavenly food; poverty, disgrace and pain are the bitters which restore… — George Horne Copy Share Image
That coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness; that practical, inventive turn of mind, quick to find expedients; that masterful grasp of material… — Frederick Jackson Turner Copy Share Image
“In all buying, consider, first, what condition of existence you cause in the producers of what you buy; secondly, whether the sum you have… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish. — William James Copy Share Image
The product of extraordinary wealth allied to a taste for the sumptuous. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The most valuable commodity in business today, if people would only recognize it, is enthusiasm” — Rona Jaffe Copy Share Image
“Prosperity, pleasure and success, may be rough of grain and common in fibre, but sorrow is the most sensitive of all created things” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
By multiplying the means of gratification, by promoting the introduction and circulation of the precious metals, those darling objects of human avarice and enterprise,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Luxury... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness. — Henri Rousseau Copy Share Image
Leave a cavity behind the [wall] facings, and on the inside build walls two feet thick, made of red dimension stone or burnt brick… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Bricks should be made in Spring or Autumn so that they may dry uniformly. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
It is no secret that the moon has no light of her own, but is, as it were, a mirror, receiving brightness from the… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Burn shavings and splinters of pitch pine, and when they turn to charcoal, put them out, and pound them into mortar with size. This… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
With the ripening of the fruits in Autumn the leaves begin to wither and the trees, taking up their sap from the earth through… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Astronomers have a common ground for discussion with musicians in the harmony of the stars and musical concords in tetrads and triads of the… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
The difference between "machines" and "engines" is obviously this, that machines need more workmen and greater power to make them take effect, as for… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
The [engineer] should be equipped with knowledge of many branches of study and varied kinds of learning, for it is by his judgement that… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
All these soft kinds [of stone] have the advantage that they can be easily worked as soon as they have been taken from the… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Apollo at Delphi, through the oracular utterance of his priestess, pronounced Socrates the wisest of men. Of him it is related that he said… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Music, also, the architect ought to understand so that he may have knowledge of the canonical and mathematical theory, and besides be able to… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Architecture depends on Order, Arrangement, Eurythmy, Symmetry , Propriety , and Economy. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
The bones of my architecture are very much related to the structure, to the physical fact of how a building can stand up; it's… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around.… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof; colonades and sculptures were added because there were people in Athens… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
I just think structure can make a book feel so much bigger. It's the architecture. You could use flimsy materials if you wanted to,… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
When I am asked what I believe in, I say that I believe in architecture. Architecture is the mother of the arts. I like… — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be — Curtis W. Fentress Copy Share Image
The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality. — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
London, from the architecture to the culture to the fashion to the accents, feels like it's a special place. — G-Eazy Copy Share Image
A wiki works best where you're trying to answer a question that you can't easily pose, where there's not a natural structure that's known… — Ward Cunningham Copy Share Image
Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived. — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning, transportation, politics,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image