Architecture Quotes

It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.

David Allan Coe

Beauty Time Look You

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Clouds Imagination Rules Castle

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.

Art Speak Buildings Visual

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

Winston Churchill

Buildings Us Shape Our

Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward Heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith.

Day Faith Future Together

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Good Good Things End Building Build

I enjoy art, architecture, museums, churches and temples; anything that gives me insight into the history and soul of the place I'm in. I can also be a beach bum - I like to laze in the shade of a palm tree with a good book or float in a warm sea at sundown.

Good Sea Beach Art

Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.

Change Future Poetry Vision

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

Time Speak Place Should Yearn

Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.

Stephen Gardiner

Good People Problems Design

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In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives.

Science Art Live Picture

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

Work Music Man Portrait

I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.

Simple Think You Calm

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

Art Me People Looking

There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart.

Heart Powerful Need Human

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

Frank Lloyd Wright

Mother Art Soul Own

Architecture is the thoughtful making of space.

Space Thoughtful Making

Architecture is about experience: not only visual but also what you can touch, what you can feel.

Experience You Feel Only

Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.

Arthur Erickson

Heart Great Unique Buildings

Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place, and it works over the generations because people go on vacation and they look for it.

Vacation Look People World

My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone.

Me Legacy Speak Long

Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.

You Fashion Space Place

Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Simplicity Comfort Sense Superior

When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan.

Nature Relationship Culture Live

Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.

Culture Civilization Belongs

Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Together You Place Two

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