List Of Architecture Quotes

Architecture Trumps Licensing Any Time.

The Fujiyama Of Architecture?at Once A Lofty Mountain And A National Shrine.

Architecture Is Either The Prophecy Of An Unformed Society Or The Tomb Of A Finished One.

Wherever Art Appears, Life Disappears.

If You're Inclined To Dismiss L.a. As A Place Of Unrelenting Vapidity And Generic 1980s Architecture, Then You're Doing Yourself And L.a. A Huge Disservice, And You're Just Not Looking Hard Enough.

I See Music As Fluid Architecture.

I Am Very Interested In Architecture. I've Been Asked If I'd Ever Direct, But Me, I'd Rather Build. It's Very Similar To Directing, Because You Get To Walk Among This Piece Of Art, To Live In It, Be Surrounded By It, Which Is Just Thrilling.

I'm Drawn To Furniture Design As Complete Architecture On A Minor Scale.

Never Talk To A Client About Architecture. Talk To Him About His Children.

Architecture Wrote The History Of The Epochs And Gave Them Their Names.

But What If We Are Dealing With Fools?

Architecture Is The Real Battleground Of The Spirit.

Architecture Is The Will Of The Age Conceived In Spatial Terms.

Architecture Has The Power To Create Order Out Of Unholy Confusion.

Architecture Is A Language. When You Are Very Good, You Can Be A Poet

Nor Aught Availed Him Now To Have Built In Heaven High Towers; Nor Did He Scrape By All His Engines, But Was Headlong Sent With His Industrious Crew To Build In Hell.

L’architecture Est Art De Suggestion.

Of Course I Know Very Little About Architecture, And The Older I Get The Less I Know.

Architecture Is About Public Space Held By Buildings.

Form Follows Profit Is The Aesthetic Principle Of Our Times.

I've Never Owned An Apple Product. I Like The Fact That Pcs Are Open Architecture And Not Locked Down Like Apple Products. I Feel That Macs Are Also Unjustifiably Overpriced.

Berlin Is Liberation. Architecture, Man!

You Have To Accept As An Architect To Be Exposed To Criticism. Architecture Should Not Rely On Full Harmony

Architecture Is Art, But Art Vastly Contaminated By Many Other Things. Contaminated In The Best Sense Of The Word – Fed, Fertilised By Many Things.

One Of The Great Beauties Of Architecture Is That Each Time, It Is Like Life Starting All Over Again.

Our Overriding Goal In Restructuring Our Financial Architecture Should Be That Taxpayers Never Again Have To Save A Failing Financial Institution.

Architects Of Grandeur Are Often The Master Builders Of Disillusionment.

As For Myself, I'm Attracted To Venture Into Places With Peeling Paint, And Areas That Are Crumbling A Little Bit. It Makes Sense Because We've Already Established The Photography Focusing On Architecture, Even If It Looks Incorrect, There's Something Appealing About Entering That.

Architecture Was Pretty Much The Sexiest Thing To Be Doing From 1700-1800.

Splendid Architecture, The Love Of Your Life, An Old Friend... They Can All Go Drifting By Unseen If Youre Not Careful.

The Aesthetic Of Architecture Has To Be Rooted In A Broader Idea About Human Activities Like Walking, Relaxing And Communicating. Architecture Thinks About How These Activities Can Be Given Added Value.

Architecture Is A Social Activity That Has To Do With Some Sort Of Communication Or Places Of Interaction, And That To Change The Environment Is To Change Behaviour.

My Buildings Don't Speak In Words But By Means Of Their Own Spaciousness.

Architecture And Building Is About How You Get Around The Obstacles That Are Presented To You. That Sometimes Determines How Successful You'll Be: How Good Are You At Going Around Obstacles?

Histories In Blazonry And Poems In Stone.

Home Is Where You Hang Your Head.

You Begin With The Possibilities Of The Material.

Fore God, You Have Here A Goodly Dwelling And A Rich.

In Architecture, Mediocrity Is More Glaringly Obvious Than In Other Lines - Because There's A Huge, Physical Object Such As A Building To Demonstrate It.

A Building Has Integrity Just Like A Man. And Just As Seldom.

To Make Pictures Big Is To Make Them More Powerful.

After About The First Millennium, Italy Was The Cradle Of Romanesque Architecture, Which Spread Throughout Europe, Much Of It Extending The Structural Daring With Minimal Visual Elaboration.

I Quit College. I Was Studying Architecture For About A Year.

The Artist Belongs To His Work, Not The Work To The Artist.

My Imagination Can Picture No Fairer Happiness Than To Continue Living For Art.

A Man Who Builds A House Never Really Dies.

Building A Temple Didn't Mean You Believed In Gods, It Just Meant You Believed In Architecture.

When You Want To Do Something That Is Challenging Or Interesting Or New, You Never Find The Place. All The Places Are Obvious Or Old Or Generic. And So You Realize That The Role Of Architecture Is Fundamental.

It Is Not With Architecture That One Can Disseminate Any Political Ideology.

Architecture Is Invention.

It Was The Drawing That Led Me To Architecture, The Search For Light And Astonishing Forms.

Life Is More Important Than Architecture.

My Architecture Is Easy To Understand. And Enjoy. I Hope It Also Is Hard To Forget.

Today, Architecture Is Invention. It Isn't Enough To Just Be Rational - It Must Also Be Beautiful.

If You're Into Architecture And You're From The West, Everything Is Hors D'oeuvres For Working To Rebuild The Temple. Ultimately You're Led There. You Can't Escape It.

Doing Anything In Japan As A Sort Of Architecture - Related Project Is Just Fantastic Because They Do Everything So Perfectly And So Quickly. It's Unlike Anywhere Else In The World.

My Painting Does Not Come From The Easel.

For Me The Working Of Hair Is Architecture With A Human Element.

The Slurbs, Urban Sprawl, And The Infinite Number, Of Housing Developments Of The Postwar Boom Have Contributed To The Architecture Of Entropy.

Painting, Sculpture And Architecture Are Finished, But The Art Habit Continues.

Artists Themselves Are Not Confined, But Their Output Is.

Istanbul Is Inspiring Because It Has Its Own Code Of Architecture, Literature, Poetry, Music.

Ah, To Build, To Build! That Is The Noblest Of All The Arts.

The Rules Of Logic Are To Mathematics What Those Of Structure Are To Architecture.

It Is Perhaps The Principal Admirableness Of The Gothic Schools Of Architecture, That They Receive The Results Of The Labour Of Inferior Minds; And Out Of Fragments Full Of Imperfectionraise Up A Stately And Unaccusable Whole.

Ornamentation Is The Principal Part Of Architecture, Considered As A Subject Of Fine Art.

No Architecture Can Be Truly Noble Which Is Not Imperfect.

Architecture ... The Adaptation Of Form To Resist Force.

No Architecture Is So Haughty As That Which Is Simple.

Architecture Is The Work Of Nations

Don't Just Look At Buildings ... Watch Them.

No Person Who Is Not A Great Sculptor Or Painter Can Be An Architect. If He Is Not A Sculptor Or Painter, He Can Only Be A Builder.

You Really Can't Function As A Celebrity. Entertainers Are Celebrities. I'm An Architect. I'm An Artist. I Make Things.

Warmth Isn't What Minimalists Are Thought To Have.

I Left Science, Then I Went Into Art, But I Approach Things Very Analytically. I Choose To Pursue Both Art And Architecture As Completely Separate Fields Rather Than Merging Them.

For The Most Part Things Never Get Built The Way They Were Drawn.

Art Is Very Tricky Because It's What You Do For Yourself. It's Much Harder For Me To Make Those Works Than The Monuments Or The Architecture.

Architecture Is Like A Mythical Fantastic. It Has To Be Experienced. It Can't Be Described. We Can Draw It Up And We Can Make Models Of It, But It Can Only Be Experienced As A Complete Whole.

I Don't Think Of Form As A Kind Of Architecture. The Architecture Is The Result Of The Forming. It Is The Kinesthetic And Visual Sense Of Position And Wholeness That Puts The Thing Into The Realm Of Art.

I Like To Pretend That My Art Has Nothing To Do With Me.

The Italians Are The Most Civilized People. And They're Very Warm. Basically, They're Jews With Great Architecture.

Minimal Art Went Nowhere.

I Want To Do Interiors, Furniture. I Want To Do Architecture, Although I'm Not An Architect. Nor Am I A Trained Interior Designer.

Houses Are Not Haunted. We Are Haunted, And Regardless Of The Architecture With Which We Surround Ourselves, Our Ghosts Stay With Us Until We Ourselves Are Ghosts.

I Think About My Work Every Minute Of The Day.

I Wanted To Disconnect From Contemporary Architecture

Escape From The Architecture Ghetto Is One Of The Major Drivers And Has Been From The Very Beginning.

The Beauty Of My Profession [architecture] Lies In Its Randomness And Surprise. And Don't Think I Can Choose My Projects. I Have To Build What's Offered To Me.

Beauty Isn't What I'm Primarily Interested In [in Architecture]. I Think Appropriateness Is More Important.

There's Nothing Dutch About My Architecture.

People Can Inhabit Anything. And They Can Be Miserable In Anything And Ecstatic In Anything. More And More I Think That Architecture Has Nothing To Do With It. Of Course, That's Both Liberating And Alarming.

Not Many Architects Have The Luxury To Reject Significant Things.

Infrastructure Is Much More Important Than Architecture.

Architecture Is A Dangerous Mix Of Power And Importance.

The Loftier The Building, The Deeper Must The Foundation Be Laid.

Architecture Is Politics.

Artists Don't Make Objects. Artists Make Mythologies.

Consider The Momentous Event In Architecture When The Wall Parted And The Column Became.

Architecture Is The Reaching Out For The Truth.

The Room Is The Beginning Of Architecture.