Quotes and Sayings about Architecture

I love architecture, but I learned early on that architects just don't make a lot of money.

Less is more.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

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

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

You can be a mason and build 50 buildings, but it doesn't mean you can design one.

Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history, but it's not very deep.

Architecture must not do violence to space or its neighbors.

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

The space within becomes the reality of the building.

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

God is in the details.

Ted: "Trying to get them interested in architecture as a career."
Barney: "Why? Are we running out of buildings?"
Robin: "Are we running out of boring people?"

It's harder to build a good chair than to build a skyscraper.

One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Design is not just what it looks like. Design is how it works.

Philippe: "Tell me Driss, why do you think people are interested in art?"
Driss: "I don't know, it's a business?"
Philippe: "No. That's because it's the only thing one leaves behind."

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed.

Artists use lies to tell the truth, while politicians use them to cover the truth up.

Art is a way of survival.

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once you grow up.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

A picture means I know where I was every minute. That's why I take pictures. It's a visual diary.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

It's better to be good than to be original.

I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.

A city, far from being a cluster of buildings, is actually a sequence of spaces enclosed and defined by buildings.

I have a great love for nature. That must have started somewhere down back home, I think, because my family own one of the better known gardens in Soochow, so I played there, and I lived there, and so I must have absorbed something there. So I continue to have a great interest in nature.

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.

Well, maybe this isn't a breakup. Maybe this is two friends getting back together.

My experience tells me the hard road is almost always the right road.

Sand is overrated. It's just tiny, little rocks.

And I realized, when I'd come in to the meetings with these corrugated metal and chain link stuff, and people would just look at me like I'd just landed from Mars. But I couldn't do anything else. That was my response to the people and the time.

The world is ruled by violence, or at least the imminent threat of violence. It always has been.

A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.

Songs are as sad as the listener.

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

It's only once you've stopped, that you realize how hard it is to start again. So you force yourself not to want it.