Architecture Quote by Thomas Jefferson Download Open image “The genius of architecture seems to have shed its maledictions over this land.” — Thomas Jefferson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Architecture Genius Intelligence Land Malediction Seems Shed Talent
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 Copy Share Image
Some people think architecture is about the genius sketch; I don't. Great architecture is a collaboration among a lot of people over a long… — Joshua Prince-Ramus Copy Share Image
Somehow, architecture alters the way we think about the world and the way we behave. Any serious architecture, as a litmus test, has to… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, that the sight of them may contribute to his mental… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye. — Annabelle Selldorf Copy Share Image
Architecture is supposed to complete nature. Great architecture makes nature more beautiful-it gives it power. — Claudio Silvestrin Copy Share Image
Great architecture has only two natural enemies: water and stupid men. — Richard Nickel Copy Share Image
Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place and it works over the generations because people… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
Think about what happens when architecture becomes ruins. All you have left are some little columns on a cliff, but it's still such an… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
There is a lot of bad architecture. What we need more is to look at how our landscape should look in the next decades. — Dieter Rams Copy Share Image
Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own earth — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Architecture, either practically considered or viewed as an art of taste, is a subject so important and comprehensive in itself, that volumes would be requisite to do it justice. Buildings of every description, from the humble cottage to the lofty temple, are objects of such constant recurrence in every habitable part of the globe, and are so strikingly indicative of… — Andrew Jackson Downing Copy Share
A man has a right to use a saw, an axe, a plane, separately; may he not combine their uses on the same piece… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[States and the Federal government are] coordinate departments of one simple and integral whole... The one is the domestic, the other the foreign branch… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Perceiving the order of nature to be that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue, I am willing to hope it… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Though you cannot see, when you take one step, what will be the next, yet follow truth, justice, and plain dealing, and never fear… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Knowledge is power...knowled ge is safety...knowle dge is happiness. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is... an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The bones of my architecture are very much related to the structure, to the physical fact of how a building can stand up; it's… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around.… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof; colonades and sculptures were added because there were people in Athens… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
I just think structure can make a book feel so much bigger. It's the architecture. You could use flimsy materials if you wanted to,… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
When I am asked what I believe in, I say that I believe in architecture. Architecture is the mother of the arts. I like… — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be — Curtis W. Fentress Copy Share Image
The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality. — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
London, from the architecture to the culture to the fashion to the accents, feels like it's a special place. — G-Eazy Copy Share Image
A wiki works best where you're trying to answer a question that you can't easily pose, where there's not a natural structure that's known… — Ward Cunningham Copy Share Image
Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived. — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning, transportation, politics,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image