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Both the imagination and the architecture are infinite. — Aleksandra Mizielinska

Now it would not be the geography of Empire that would make him, it would be the architecture of war. — Kate Atkinson

If music is frozen architecture, then the potpourri is frozen coffee-table gossip ... Potpourri is the art of adding apples to pears ... — Arnold Schoenberg

Architecture does not change anything. It's always on the side of the wealthy. The important thing is to believe that it can make life better. — Oscar Niemeyer

The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line. — Arthur Erickson

Be the best, not necessarily the original. — I.M. Pei

The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story. — Joel Coen

I've said goodbye to the overworked notion that architecture has to save the world. — Peter Zumthor

Architecture is the king or queen of the arts, — Gaetano Pesce

Drawing architecture is a "schizoid" act: it involves reducing the world to a piece of paper. — Eduardo Souto De Moura

Nothing like that warm and fuzzy Soviet architecture ... Pretty much as close to the Klingon home world as you're gonna get. — Josh Gates

Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form. — Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

The visual architecture of 'Biutiful' is the most sophisticated of all the films I have directed. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

When I'm in London, Claridge's is a great favourite. I'm a big fan of art deco architecture and the rooms are extraordinary. — Roman Coppola

The only thing wrong with architecture is architects. — Frank Lloyd Wright

I think that as good architecture enhances a city, a good cut enhances the definition and expression of a face. — Vidal Sassoon

Cities are the greatest creations of humanity. — Daniel Libeskind

The room is the beginning of architecture. — Louis Kahn

I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in a Robert Langdon thriller. — Dan Brown

Architecture should be rooted in the past, and yet be part of our own time and forward looking. — Moshe Safdie

It is obvious that an imagined world, however different it may be from the real one, must have something - a form - in common with it. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible. — Frank Gehry

Architecture has a strong link with the movies in terms of time progression, sequencing, framing, all of that. — Christian De Portzamparc

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

The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs. — Harry Seidler

I don't really get into architecture in the hotel room. But maybe a little Feng Shui here and there. — Drew Barrymore

Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder. — Daniel Libeskind

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

The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete. — Iain McGilchrist

Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became. — Louis Kahn

New York is the cubist, the futurist city. It expresses in its architecture, its life, its spirit, the modern thought. — Francis Picabia

He who does not master the nude cannot understand the principles of architecture. — Michelangelo

It is therefore indisputable that the limbs of architecture are derived from the limbs of man. — Michelangelo

There is a lot of bad architecture. What we need more is to look at how our landscape should look in the next decades. — Dieter Rams

The art of the word is painting + architecture + music. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

By the unification of architecture, sculpture and painting a new plastic reality will be created. — Piet Mondrian

It seemed that in Paris you could discuss classic literature or architecture or great music with everyone from the garbage collector to the mayor. — Julia Child

The suburb was the major element of Australian society. — Robin Boyd

I had some good opportunities. I was lucky to have had the chance to do things differently. Architecture is about surprise. — Oscar Niemeyer

Architecture is either the prophecy of an unformed society or the tomb of a finished one. — Lewis Mumford

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

Art and architecture
all the arts
do not have to exist in isolation, — Donald Judd

The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye. — Annabelle Selldorf

The practice of architecture not only requires participation in the profession but it also requires civic engagement. — Samuel

A great building must begin with the immeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed, and in the end must be unmeasured. — Louis I. Kahn

The perfect kind of architecture decision is the one which never has to be made — Robert C. Martin

architecture is an art of the mind that will display in front of the eyes from others which can satisfy their needs — Jan Jansen

In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture. — Nancy Banks-Smith

He was of opinion that what we now vulgarly call the Gothick, ought properly and truly be named Saracenick Architecture refined by the Christians. — Christopher Wren

In architecture you should live for 150 years, because you have to learn in the first 75 years. — Renzo Piano

Modernism', as a label, has currency in the arts, architecture, planning, landscape, politics, theology, cultural history and elsewhere. — Tom Turner

Though who knows the architecture of the mind, and whether the arches that open upon discrete episodes are ordered in any way sequentialy? — Gregory Maguire

I first decided architecture was for me when I saw Le Corbusier's designs in a Japanese magazine in the 1930s. — Kenzo Tange

Dressmaking is the architecture of movement — Pierre Balmain

The greatest architectural illusion is not Baroque fancy or Victorian flamboyant, but minimalism. — Kevin McCloud

Everyone used to want to be star architects. That's no longer the case. — Shigeru Ban

In Jack Nasar's research on American's taste in homes, only one group preferred the modernist house: architects. — Winifred Gallagher

Theater publicly reveals the human condition through appealing to both intellect and emotion. Architecture, whether lowly or exalted, can do the same. — Hugh Hardy

The peace within and flowing from sacred spaces and architecture places is clothed in forgiveness, renunciation, and reconciliation. — Norris Brock Johnson

We have to base architecture on the environment. — Toyo Ito

The secret of architectural excellence is to translate the proportions of a dachshund into bricks, mortar and marble. — Christopher Wren

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul. — Ernest Dimnet

'Clothespin' was the first city monument on a large scale that could compete with the architecture around it. — Claes Oldenburg

There will be no new architecture for computing for the next 1,000 years. — Larry Ellison

I truly believe that the great heroes that create the history of architecture are people who take risks and write to tell about it. — Peter Eisenman

I learn urgently
the architecture of loss
then find you again. — Warsan Shire

In pure architecture the smallest detail should have a meaning or serve a purpose. — Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin

Angkor is perhaps the greatest of Man's essays in rectangular architecture that has yet been brought to life. — Arnold J. Toynbee

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims. — R. Buckminster Fuller

It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms. — Oscar Niemeyer

The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics. — Jay Chiat

The criteria for architecture after the tsunami is humbleness — Kengo Kuma

Architecture is the story of how we see ourselves. It is the architect's job to service everyday life. — Thom Mayne

I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter ... — Larry Wall

I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational. — Charles Jencks

Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England. — Stephen Gardiner

I know we can't have a great architecture while it is only for the landlord. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Releasing Linux versions has always been a matter of higher code quality, good software architecture, and technical interest for the platform. — Timothee Besset

The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house. — Thomas Reid

Architecture is the work of nations — John Ruskin

The architecture of the song, if it's built properly, can withstand all kinds of things. — Emily Haines

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture. — Salvador Dali

We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates. — Jun'ichiro Tanizaki

Architecture is the alpha principle of all arts. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest. — Stephen Gardiner

Again, we find that the space standards of twenty-first century luxury are below the required minimum for dockworkers in 1962. — Owen Hatherley

I think architecture could be understood as the construction of realities, or the construction of worlds. — Jimenez Lai

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

The automobile is the greatest catastrophe in the entire history of City architecture. — Philip Johnson

I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people in Cortona. — Frances Mayes

The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture. — Christopher Nolan

Of course I know very little about architecture, and the older I get the less I know. — Richard Rogers

the voice seems to echo in the architecture of his head — Anthony Doerr

Anybody I talk to agrees that maybe 2 percent of the building environment since the war, we could call architecture. — Frank Gehry

The rules of logic are to mathematics what those of structure are to architecture. — Bertrand Russell

The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city. — Alvar Aalto

A languid janitor bears
His lantern through colonnades
And the architecture swoons. — Wallace Stevens

Architecture is the simplest means of articulating time and space, of modulating reality, of engendering dreams. — Ivan Chtcheglov

Is there some vital connection between Norman church architecture and the milking of beef cattle of which I am unaware? — Michael Chabon