Architect Quote by Martin Filler

I would like to have . . . architecture that belonged where you see it standingand is a grace to the landscape instead of…

— Uknown

“Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.” —Frank Lloyd Wright”

— Abigail R. Gehring

I think a lot of people have the Frank Lloyd Wright model in their brains. The architect comes in with this act of creation…

— Thom Mayne

[Documentary photography] is unwittingly literary, because it is nothing other than an observation of contemporary life apprehended at the right moment by an artist…

— Pierre Mac Orlan

I believe that photography can create great works of art, but hitherto it has been extraordinarily bourgeois and babbling. (1908)

— Auguste Rodin

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

— Vitruvius Pollio

Once people write criticism about something - and even in 1967 I was far from alone - they're assuming it's art, and art is…

— Robert Christgau

“The sense of modernism is often seen in the determination of each of the arts to come as close as possible to its own…

— Milan Kundera

Art isn't anecdote. It's the consciousness we bring to bear in our lives.

— Cheryl Strayed

In art school, it was about feeling. In architecture school, it was about ideas.

— Elizabeth Diller

The flood of photos sweeps away the dams of memory. Never before has a period known so little about itself. In the hands of…

— Siegfried Kracauer

It always seems to people that I'm avoiding saying, 'It's autobiographical,' but I really do believe that human beings make stories and they make…

— Phoebe Gloeckner