Architecture Quotes & Sayings

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~ Architecture is frozen music. ~

~ Architecture is the art of how to waste space. ~

Philip Johnson

~ The building is a special place because of its architecture, ... But it's people who make it special by participating in it. ~

Charlie Chaplin

~ I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain ~

John Adams

~ Architecture is frozen music. ~

Goethe

~ Architecture is the work of nations. ~

John Ruskin

~ Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, that the sight of them may contribute to his mental health, power, and pleasure. ~

John Ruskin

~ Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light. ~

Le Corbusier

~ The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization. ~

Frank Lloyd Wright

~ Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions. ~

Coco Chanel

~ Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul ~

Ernest Dimnet

~ Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. ~

Laurie Anderson

~ Architecture is the art of how to waste space. ~

Philip Johnson

~ Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins. ~

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

~ There are a great many things about architecture that are hidden from the untrained eye. ~

Frank Gehry

~ Architecture is not all about the design of the building and nothing else, it is also about the cultural setting and the ambience, the whole affair. ~

Michael Graves

~ Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity. ~

Frank Lloyd Wright

~ Architecture is petrified music. ~

Felix E. Schelling

~ Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity. ~

Frank Lloyd Wright

~ Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within, going abroad only for audience, and spectator, as we adapt our voice and phrase to the distance and character of the ear we speak to ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture. ~

Jonathan Raban

~ My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people. ~

Richard Rogers

~ The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture. ~

Helmut Jahn

~ Architecture begins where engineering ends. ~

Walter Gropius

~ Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design. ~

Herbert Simon

~ It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect. ~

John Ruskin

~ Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light. ~

Le Corbusier

~ Talking about music is like dancing about architecture. ~

Steve Martin

~ Architecture is inhabited sculpture. ~

Constantin Brancusi

~ Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues. ~

Robert Smithson

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