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