Architecture Quotes

• I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.

  

  Charlie Rose
  • Architecture

• I studied fine arts and architecture, but I decided to move into movie design because I grew up in a small town in the Marche region and spent a lot of time after school in the movie theater.

  

  Dante Ferretti
  • Up
  • Time
  • School

• Architecture is the real battleground of the spirit.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Real
  • Spirit
  • Battleground

• You don't need to spend a lot of money on stuff when you have amazing architecture.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Money
  • Amazing
  • Architecture

• Everyone should be able to build, and as long as this freedom to build does not exist, the present-day planned architecture cannot be considered art at all.

  

  Friedensreich Hundertwasser
  • Long
  • Art
  • Freedom

• To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.

  

  Milton Glaser
  • Design
  • Inspiring
  • Communicate

• Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Great
  • Book
  • Religious

• The elms of New England! They are as much a part of her beauty as the columns of the Parthenon were the glory of its architecture.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • New England
  • Parthenon
  • Elms

• The principal element of Suprematism in painting, as in architecture, is its liberation from all social or materialist tendencies. Through Suprematism, art comes into its pure and unpolluted form. It has acknowledged the decisive fact of the nonobjective character of sensibility. It is no longer concerned with illusion.

  

  Kazimir Malevich
  • Art
  • Character
  • Painting

• I studied architecture in New York. So, really I was very moved, like everyone else, to try to contribute something that has that resonance and profundity of it means to all of us.

  

  Daniel Libeskind
  • Architecture

• Tel Aviv is new, built on the sand dunes north of Jaffa in the 1890s, about the same time Miami was founded. The cities bear a resemblance in size, site, climate, and architecture, which ranges from the bland to the fancifully bland.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Time
  • New
  • Architecture

• I'm not a religious person. But, when I look at a beautiful cathedral, what brings awe, what induces awe is the idea that architecture, you know, a beautiful cathedral, a beautiful building.

  

  Jason Silva
  • Beautiful
  • Religious
  • Architecture

• I wanted a real profession. And I'd always been interested in architecture and in design and in, really, what makes things work. And understanding what's kind of behind the walls and why things stand up and some things don't.

  

  S. J. Rozan
  • Up
  • Work
  • Real

• The architecture for 'Paladin' - given that it's at least three books, with the possibility of more - turned out to be bigger than anything I've ever created, with multiple levels of reality, interlocking mysteries and a terabyte of time frame.

  

  Mark Frost
  • Time
  • Reality
  • Architecture

• In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures.

  

  Maya Lin
  • Done
  • Art
  • Crazy

• In architecture and interiors, as well as fashion, there is an interaction that is both functional and aesthetic.

  

  Joseph Altuzarra
  • Fashion
  • Architecture
  • Aesthetic

• Architecture is invention.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Architecture
  • Invention

• Buildings in modern cities have lost their metaphoric aspect. Much contemporary architecture is very fragmented and busy on the outside. It's like a skin or a skull, but you don't know what's inside.

  

  Mario Botta
  • Lost
  • Architecture

• Architecture aims at Eternity.

  

  Christopher Wren
  • Architecture

• I am immersed in architecture all day, working in my office or teaching.

  

  Peter Eisenman
  • Architecture

• I find the aristocratic parts of London so unattractive and angular; the architecture is so white and gated. But in New York, it's different - even uptown it's really grand, and there's no real segregation there. It's all mixed up.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Up
  • Different
  • Real

• There is still a real need for good quality architecture, not paper architecture, but the real stuff.

  

  Peter Zumthor
  • Good
  • Real
  • Quality

• I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Architecture

• And when his hours are numbered, and the world Is all his own, retiring, as he were not, Leaves, when the sun appears, astonished Art To mimic in slow structures, stone by stone Built in an age, the mad wind's night-work, The frolic architecture of the snow.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • World
  • Work
  • Art

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