Architecture Quotes & Sayings

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~ There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk around, and architecture is art you can walk through. ~

Dan Rice

~ This building is like a book. Its architecture is the binding, its text is in the glass and sculpture. ~

Malcolm Miller

~ The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government. ~

Milton Friedman

~ Forests were the first temples of the Divinity, and it is in the forests that men have grasped the first idea of architecture. ~

Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand

~ Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within. ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk around, and architecture is art you can walk through ~

Dan Rice

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

Coco Chanel

~ The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul ~

Thomas Moore

~ Architecture is the work of nations. ~

John Ruskin

~ Architecture is a social act and the material theater of human activity. ~

Spiro Kostof

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

Coco Chanel

~ Architecture is music in space, as it were a frozen music ~

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling

~ Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. ~

Laurie Anderson

~ Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. ~

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

~ This building is like a book. Its architecture is the binding, its text is in the glass and sculpture. ~

Malcolm Miller

~ A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress ~

Lord Byron

~ In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions: Commodity, Firmness and Delight. ~

Henry Watton

~ Architecture is inhabited sculpture. ~

Constantin Brancusi

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

Ernest Dimnet

~ 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. ~

Maya Lin

~ Architecture is petrified music. ~

Felix E. Schelling

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

Philip Johnson

~ Architecture begins where engineering ends. ~

Walter Gropius

~ The drama embraces and applies all the beauties and decorations of poetry. The sister arts attend and adorn it. Painting, architecture, and music are her handmaids. The costliest lights of a people's intellect burn at her show. All ages welcome her. ~

Robert Aris Willmott

~ Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It is at least the geometric pattern of things, of life, of the human and social world. It is at best that magic framework of reality that we sometimes touch upon when we use the word order. ~

Frank Lloyd Wright

~ Each hamlet or village or town should be a place, its own place. This is not a matter of fake historicism or artsy-craftsy architecture. It is a matter of respect for things existing, subtle patterns of place woven from vistas and street widths and the siting and color and scale of stores, houses, and trees.... If the countryside is to prosper, it must be different from city or suburb.... The difference is in part the simple business of containing our towns and giving them boundaries. ~

Robert Riley

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