Architecture Quotes
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Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins. (Quote by - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe)
Architecture is frozen music. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity. (Quote by - Frank Lloyd Wright)
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. (Quote by - Michael Graves)
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall. (Quote by - Frank Lloyd Wright)
I think Ms. Monroe's architecture is extremely good architecture. (Quote by - Frank Lloyd Wright)
A spaceship is a delicately balanced environment. Every element that doesn't contribute to the overall functioning of the system is by definition working against it. The same is true of our planet – our mothership – though sadly, most architecture today is slowly fatal to nature's systems (Quote by - Constance Adams)
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. (Quote by - Maya Lin)
Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As best gem upon her zone. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner. (Quote by - Bible)
Silently as a dream the fabric rose; No sound of hammer or of saw was there. (Quote by - William Cowper)
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
I call architecture frozen music. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; . . . (Quote by - Bible)
Architecture is the printing-press of all ages, and gives a history of the state of the society in which it was erected, from the cromlech of the Druids to those toy-shops of royal bad taste (Quote by - Lady Morgan)
Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became. (Quote by - Louis Kahn)
There was King Bradmond's palace, Was never none richer, the story says: For all the windows and the walls Were painted with gold, both towers and halls; Pillars and doors all were of brass; Windows of latten were set with glass; It was so rich in many wise, That it was like a paradise. (Quote by - Sir Bevis of Hamptoun)
The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man. The mountain of granite blooms into an eternal flower, with the lightness and delicate finish, as well as the aerial proportions and perspective of vegetable beauty. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
When I lately stood with a friend before [the cathedral of] Amiens, . . . he asked me how it happens that we can no longer build such piles? I replied: "Dear Alphonse, men in those days had convictions (Ueberzeugungen), we moderns have opinions (Meinungen) and it requires something more than an opinion to build a Gothic cathedral. (Quote by - Heinrich Heine)
The organiwational architecture is really that a centipede walks on a hundred legs and one or two don't count. So if I lose one or two legs, the process will go on, the organisation will go on, the growth will go on. (Quote by - Mukesh Ambani)
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. (Quote by - Henry Watton)
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. (Quote by - Laurie Anderson)
I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people. (Quote by - Donna Karan)
The architect is not free, but the artist is... The architect works with his head, but the artist with his heart. (Quote by - Serguei Ouissik)
All real education is the architecture of the soul. (Quote by - William J Bennett)
Architecture is inhabited sculpture. (Quote by - Constantin Brancusi)
An architect is the drawer of dreams (Quote by - Grace McGarvie)
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization. (Quote by - Frank Lloyd Wright)
The architect must not only understand drawing, but music. (Quote by - Vitruvius Pollio)
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. (Quote by - Frank Lloyd Wright)
I was Planning to Go into Architecture. But when I arrived [to sign up for courses] Architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it. So I signed up for acting instead. (Quote by - Tom Selleck)
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. (Quote by - John Ruskin)
Architecture is a social act and the material theater of human activity. (Quote by - Spiro Kostof)
Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
A man who could build a church, as one may say, by squinting at a sheet of paper. (Quote by - Charles Dickens)
Architecture is petrified music. (Quote by - Felix E. Schelling)
Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions. (Quote by - Coco Chanel)
Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul. (Quote by - Ernest Dimnet)
There are a great many things about architecture that are hidden from the untrained eye. (Quote by - Frank Gehry)
No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung, Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung. Majestic silence. (Quote by - Bishop Reginald Heber)
Grandeur . . . consists in form, and not in size: and to the eye of the philosopher, the curve drawn on a paper two inches long, is just as magnificent, just as symbolic of divine mysteries and melodies, as when embodied in the span of some cathedral roof. (Quote by - Charles Kingsley)
This building is like a book. Its architecture is the binding, its text is in the glass and sculpture. (Quote by - Malcolm Miller)
Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light. (Quote by - Le Corbusier)
Architecture is the art of how to waste space. (Quote by - Philip Johnson)
A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds. (Quote by - Gilbert Keith Chesterton)
Architecture is music in space, as it were a frozen music (Quote by - Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling)
Rich windows that exclude the light, And passages that lead to nothing. (Quote by - Thomas Gray)
Architecture is the work of nations. (Quote by - John Ruskin)
And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building. (Quote by - Bible)
Old houses mended, Cost little less than new, before they're ended. (Quote by - Colley Cibber)
Architecture in general is frozen music. (Quote by - Friedrich Von Schelling)
