Building Quote by Martin Filler

Buildings designed with careful attention to aesthetics arouse and enlighten their occupants and that promotes their good health.

— Robert Evans

Buildings like Penn Station attract our protective instincts not only because of their beauty but because we fear what will come to replace them.

— Roger Scruton

The great danger in today's world, pervaded as it is by consumerism, is the desolation and anguish born of a complacent yet covetous heart,…

— Pope Francis

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing…

— John Ruskin

Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context.

— Margaret J. Wheatley

Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below…

— Gregory Bateson

To this day, I enjoy nature, the luxury of undisturbed wilderness, forests, mountains, lakes, rivers and deserts and their wildlife. But I also know…

— Norman Borlaug

City planning finds its validation in the intuitive recognition that a burgeoning market society can not be trusted to produce spontaneously a habitable, sanitary,…

— Murray Bookchin

There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.

— Paul Gauguin

There is a deep human need for beauty and if you ignore that need in architecture your buildings will not last

— Roger Scruton

We are all vulnerable to the tendency to overestimate the likelihood of vivid, cognitively available risks rather than statistically likelier, but less salient, risks.

— Karl Iagnemma

One of the surest evidences of an elevated taste is the power of enjoying works of impassioned terrorism, in poetry, and painting. The man…

— Benjamin Haydon