Architecture Quote by Michael Graves

Architecture is invention.

— Oscar Niemeyer

Today, architecture is invention. It isn't enough to just be rational - It must also be beautiful.

— Oscar Niemeyer

The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired…

— Victor Hugo

I don't think architecture should be considered as an art form in the first instance. Whenever I say that, it makes people really angry.…

— James Polshek

I hope you will understand that architecture has nothing to do with the inventions of forms. It is not a playground for children, young…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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

I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity.

— I. M. Pei

There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts.

— Moshe Safdie

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

— John Ruskin

Architecture is what nature cannot make. Architecture is something unnatural but not something made up.

— Louis Kahn

I believe that architecture, as anything else in life, is evolutionary. Ideas evolve; they don't come from outer space and crash into the drawing…

— Bjarke Ingels

Architecture is art, nothing else.

— Philip Johnson