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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye.
— Annabelle Selldorf
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
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
In Jack Nasar's research on American's taste in homes, only one group preferred the modernist house: architects.
— Winifred Gallagher
The peace within and flowing from sacred spaces and architecture places is clothed in forgiveness, renunciation, and reconciliation.
— Norris Brock Johnson
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
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 urgentlythe 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
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
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
