The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house. 3 wisdom & wit from Thomas Reid
All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. 52 other quotes from Gilbert K. Chesterton
The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture. 11 quotes from Salvador Dali
To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that. 5 other thoughts from Martha Graham
There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds. 52 quotes from Gilbert K. Chesterton
In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route. 5 wisdom & wit from Charles Eames
Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity. 26 quotes from Frank Lloyd Wright
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age. 26 quotes from Frank Lloyd Wright
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization. 26 quotes from Frank Lloyd Wright
An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site. 26 more quotes from Frank Lloyd Wright
They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar. 117 wisdom & wit from Henry David Thoreau
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over. 35 sayings from Ernest Hemingway
I am but an architectural composer. 2 more thoughts from Alexander Jackson Davis
All real education is the architecture of the soul. 2 wisdom & wit from William Bennett
I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect. 2 wisdom & wit from Alexander Jackson Davis
Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions. 16 more sayings from Coco Chanel
But the building's identity resided in the ornament. 2 quotes from Louis Sullivan
Make big plans aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die. 2 more views from Daniel Burnham
Form follows function. 2 sayings from Louis Sullivan
The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. 24 wisdom & wit from Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light. 5 thoughts from Le Corbusier
To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects. 5 thoughts from Le Corbusier
A house is a machine for living in. 5 more quotes from Le Corbusier
We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us. 74 thoughts from Winston Churchill
The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in. 78 other quotes from Voltaire
Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe. 3 more wisdom & wit from Minoru Yamasaki
The higher the building the lower the morals. 3 other sayings from Noel Coward
We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless. 3 other thoughts from Minoru Yamasaki
The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present. 4 wisdom & wit from Adolf Loos
Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise. 4 quotes from Adolf Loos
Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building. 2 quotes from John Osborne
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. 68 wisdom & wit from Samuel Butler
What people want, above all, is order. 13 quotes from Stephen Gardiner
A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress. 36 wisdom & wit from Lord Byron
Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England. 13 other wisdom & wit from Stephen Gardiner
Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves. 2 quotes from Julia Morgan
Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul. 3 other sayings from Ernest Dimnet
The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally. 13 other wisdom & wit from Stephen Gardiner
The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid. 12 thoughts from Thomas a Kempis
The interior of the house personifies the private world the exterior of it is part of the outside world. 13 quotes from Stephen Gardiner
The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail. 13 other quotes from Stephen Gardiner
The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living. 13 quotes from Stephen Gardiner
Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues. 3 wisdom & wit from Robert Smithson
Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest. 13 other wisdom & wit from Stephen Gardiner
Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building. 45 more quotes from Thomas Fuller
My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone. 2 thoughts from Julia Morgan
Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community. 13 other views from Stephen Gardiner
Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life. 4 more quotes from Arne Jacobsen
If a building becomes architecture, then it is art. 4 other sayings from Arne Jacobsen
It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect. 45 more quotes from John Ruskin
A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom. 24 more wisdom & wit from Ayn Rand
Architecture is inhabited sculpture. 2 views from Constantin Brancusi
Architecture is the reaching out for the truth. 3 quotes from Louis Kahn
I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly. 4 more views from Arne Jacobsen
Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became. 3 more quotes from Louis Kahn
No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple. 45 quotes from John Ruskin
I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build. 24 wisdom & wit from Ayn Rand
Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins. 5 more sayings from Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. 5 sayings from Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience. 5 wisdom & wit from Luis Barragan
Less is more. 5 more thoughts from Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening to me they are one. 5 more wisdom & wit from Luis Barragan