Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Architecture.
Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.
Arthur Erickson
Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.
Jimmy Breslin
If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting.
Arne Jacobsen
All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.
Voltaire
I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.
Brad Pitt
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
Samuel Butler
Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.
Stephen Gardiner
I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.
They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.
Henry David Thoreau
Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
Philip Johnson
Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
Thomas Fuller
The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain most of our lives. I wondered if that was sort of the point of architecture.
John Green
No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.
John Ruskin
Architecture begins where engineering ends.
Walter Gropius
Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city.
Frank Gehry
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
I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them.
Maya Lin
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.
Frank Lloyd Wright
