Quotes and Sayings about Architecture

Quotes and Sayings about Architecture

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

Shahid Khan

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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

Frank Gehry

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

John Malkovich

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.

Steve Martin

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

Frank Lloyd Wright

The space within becomes the reality of the building.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Imagination Air

God is in the details.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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?"

Robin Scherbatsky in How I Met Your Mother - Season 7 Episode 5

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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.

Albert Einstein in The World As I See It

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

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Art Truth Politicians

Art is a way of survival.

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

Pablo Picasso

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Children & Childhood Art

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Andy Warhol

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

Pablo Picasso

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

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

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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.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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Nature & Environment

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Robin Scherbatsky in How I Met Your Mother - Season 5 Episode 7

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Friendship Relationships

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

Shahid Khan

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

Joel Barish in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

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Sand Stones & 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.

Frank Gehry

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

John Malkovich

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

Steve Martin

Songs are as sad as the listener.

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Music Sad Quotes

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

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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

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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.

John F. Kennedy - June 1963

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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.

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