Architecture Quotes

Art itself, in all its methods, is the child of religion. The highest and best works in architecture, sculpture and painting, poetry and music, have been born out of the religion of Nature.

I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music.

Architecture is frozen music. [Ger., Die Backunst ist eine erstarrte Musik.]

It's not so much about form versus functionality. Rather, it's about doing both and doing them a lot and doing them well-and that's how we should be talking about architecture.

I've always been interested in the idea of the artificial landscape. Reforming the landscape. Architecture being a method of reforming the earth's surface.

The sight of such a monument is like continual and stationary music, which one hears for one's good as one approaches it.

Where do architects and designers get their ideas? The answer, of course, is mainly from other architects and designers, so is it mere casuistry to distinguish between tradition and plagiarism?

Architecture begins to matter when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads.

When a building is as good as that one, f#*@ the art.

As technology advances at an alarming pace, the place of drawing remains as valid as ever in the creation of art and architecture.

The beauty of my profession [architecture] lies in its randomness and surprise. And don't think I can choose my projects. I have to build what's offered to me.

Minimal art went nowhere.

The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world.

To some extent I've always taken the architecture of the space into account.

The current state of architecture and design requires extensive collaboration and an investigative attitude and we continue to research and develop new technologies.

The paintings have only ever been ways of exploring architecture. I don't see them as art.

After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared.

No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

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

I have always been interested in the idea of self-reinvention.

Architecture is petrified music.

The back of Saint Peter's is one of the finest pieces of architecture I've ever seen.

When I see architecture that moves me, I hear music in my inner ear

I think Miss Monroe as architecture is extremely good architecture, and she's a very natural actress, and a very good one.

The more I examine the universe and study the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known that we were coming.

I think the future of architecture does not lie so much in continuing to fill up the landscape, as in bringing back life and order to our cities and towns.

A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive.

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.

Hong Kong is a nice playground for my street pieces as the architecture is very different from my home city. It's also a great opportunity to take place in a dynamic city of the global art scene.

I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library.

Complacency will be the architecture of your downfall.

A novel is a piece of architecture. It's not random wallowings or confessional diaries. It's a building-it has to have walls and floors and the bathrooms have to work.

Architecture is the work of nations

Ornamentation is the principal part of architecture, considered as a subject of fine art.

There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter.

Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have.

Architecture is not a profession, it is a discipline.

I've never had a problem with the old truism about dancing to architecture. I think you can dance to architecture. There's some pretty funky architecture to dance to.

I'm trying to create flesh architecture. I aim to get a sculptural feel for groups of bodies, as well as create performance art.

The genius of architecture seems to have shed its maledictions over this land.

Architecture would lead us to all the arts, as it did with earlier mean: but if we despise it and take no note of how we are housed, the other arts will have a hard time of it indeed.

The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.

Viewed from a certain distance and under good light, even an ugly city can look like the promised land.

Good architecture lets nature in.

Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.

Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture.

In music I do not look for logic. I am quite intuitive on the whole and know no theories. I never like a work if I cannot intuitively grasp its inner unity (architecture).

True features make the beauty of a face, and true proportions the beauty of architecture.

Architecture is made of memory. The slope of a roof, the shape of a window, and the color of a door contain the record of the minds that conceived them and the hands that crafted them.

The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.