Feel Quote by Stephen Hough

Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wanted... to build dwellings for men in which they might…

— Edvard Grieg

Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wantedto build dwellings for men in which they might feel…

— Edvard Grieg

“The church tower, firm in line, soaring unfalteringly to its tapering point, topped with red tiles and broad in the roof, an earthly building…

— Franz Kafka

Bach is how buildings got taller. It's how we got to the moon.

— Charles Mingus

We used to build temples, and museums are about as close as secular society dares to go in facing up to the idea that…

— Alain de Botton

Building a temple didn't mean you believed in gods, it just meant you believed in architecture.

— Terry Pratchett

“architecture to spiritually uplift and thought it was a very bad idea to build functional, uninspired blocks of flats that would depress both their…

— Menna van Praag

“Forests were the first temples of God and in forests men grasped their first idea of architecture.”

— James C. Snyder

“In the minds of the early Christians, the people—not the architecture—constituted a sacred space.”

— Frank Viola

Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power.

— Sun Ra

“Our ancestors built temples for their gods. We build department stores.”

— David Mitchell

There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old, and the same today as it has ever been. The great…

— Christopher Alexander