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Architecture is frozen music.

Goethe

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

Philip Johnson

Architecture is the work of nations.

John Ruskin

The architect must not only understand drawing, but music.

Vitruvius Pollio

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

A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

Thomas Fuller

All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

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

Spiro Kostof

An architect is the drawer of dreams

Grace McGarvie

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

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling

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

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