Architect Quote by Martin Filler

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

— Arne Jacobsen

Today the arts exist in isolation, from which they can be rescued only through the conscious, cooperative effort of all craftsmen. Architects, painters, and…

— Walter Gropius

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.

— Julia Morgan

Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its…

— Walter Gropius

Personally, one of the greatest sources of inspiration for my work has been architecture. I've had the chance to see so many exquisite structures,…

— Gauri Khan

Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its…

— Walter Gropius

Architecture isman'sgreat sense of himself embodied in a world of his own making. It may rise as high in quality only as its source…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

It is the rare architect who does not hope in his heart to design a great building and for whom the quest is not…

— Ada Louise Huxtable

The building art is, in reality, always the spatial execution of spiritual decisions. It is bound to its times and manifests itself only in…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.

— Renzo Piano

As regards the efficacy of the art and the theories of it, I promise and expect that in these volumes I shall undoubtedly show…

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio