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There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk around, and architecture is art you can walk through — Dan Rice

Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process. — Kenneth Clark

A building is not just a place to be but a way to be. — Frank Lloyd Wright

I'd like to do a lot of things - whether in design or architecture or business. — Caroline Wozniacki

If I weren't involved with food, I'd be working in architecture. Design is that critical to me. — Alice Waters

Good ideas come from everywhere. It's more important to recognize a good idea than to author it. — Jeanne Gang

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 immortalizes and glorifies something. Hence there can be no architecture where there is nothing to glorify. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Architecture should be dedicated to keeping the outside out and the inside in. — Leonard Baskin

My architecture is easy to understand. And enjoy. I hope it also is hard to forget. — Oscar Niemeyer

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

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

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

I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build. — Ayn Rand

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 tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life. — Arne Jacobsen

Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built. — Daniel Libeskind

It started to go wrong quite early, my relationship with Architecture — Jeremy Till

Do you know how hard and expensive architecture school is? People drop out to go to med school because it's easier. — Andrea Laurence

I'm trying to create flesh architecture. I aim to get a sculptural feel for groups of bodies, as well as create performance art. — Spencer Tunick

I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one. — Luis Barragan

I think of architecture as a piece of clothing to wrap around human beings — Toyo Ito

Princeton University's campus environment presents unique challenges and opportunities for architecture to act as a social condenser. — Steven Holl

To really appreciate architecture, you may even need to commit a murder. — Bernard Tschumi

I like to think about machines and technology in relation to landscape and architecture. — Antoine Predock

The purpose of architecture is to create an atmosphere in which man can live, work, and enjoy. — Minoru Yamasaki

The purpose of construction is TO MAKE THINGS HOLD TOGETHER; of architecture TO MOVE US. — Le Corbusier

At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture. — Martin Puryear

I think architecture has to be a gift. — Jean Nouvel

London, from the architecture to the culture to the fashion to the accents, feels like it's a special place. — G-Eazy

A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. — Frank Lloyd Wright

The only way to enjoy architecture is not just to look at it but to move around it and through it. — Kenneth Bayes

Architecture approaches nearer than any other art to being irrevocable because it is so difficult to get rid of. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

The genius of architecture seems to have shed its maledictions over this land. — Thomas Jefferson

If you consider only utility, the things you build will soon be useless ... nobody wants to be in it. — Roger Scruton

To some extent I've always taken the architecture of the space into account. — Wade Guyton

I went into architecture a little as 'Peck's Bad Boy.' It allowed me to be a critic in a socially condoned way. — James Polshek

Trying to describe something musical is like dancing to architecture, it's really difficult. — Robert Palmer

There are no chords in modernist architecture, only lines - lines that may come to an end, but that achieve no closure — Roger Scruton

It takes a great client to create great architecture. — Curtis W. Fentress

The designers [of the 1930s] were populists, you see; they were trying to give the public what it wanted. What the public wanted was the future. — William Gibson

Good architecture is necessary to give programs enough structure to be able to grow large without collapsing into a puddle of confusion. — Douglas Crockford

The purpose of architecture is to transmute the emptiness into space, that is into something which our minds can grasp as an organized unity. — El Lissitzky

I love that your house plans for you to get muddy. Like it's in the architecture. — Rainbow Rowell

Architecture was pretty much the sexiest thing to be doing from 1700-1800. — Kevin McCloud

To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it. — Daniel Libeskind

When circumstances defy order, order should bend or break: anomalies and uncertainties give validity to architecture. — Robert Venturi

Architecture begins to matter when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads. — Paul Goldberger

Somehow, architecture alters the way we think about the world and the way we behave. Any serious architecture, as a litmus test, has to be that. — Thom Mayne

The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living. — Stephen Gardiner

We were still young enough to remember the cubist architecture of the piles of corpses we had seen during the war. — George Konrad

My weakness ... is architecture. I think of my work as ephemeral architecture, dedicated to the beauty of the female body. — Christian Dior

Architecture is the art of how to waste space. — Phillip E. Johnson

Architecture was the last of the major professions to devise a formal 'cursus honorum' before its practice could be undertaken. — Martin Filler

Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society. — Kenzo Tange

Architecture students are generally given theoretical projects, often located at distant locations, and told to come up with a design. — Alan Huffman

Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture. — Tadao Ando

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

Painting can never show her nose in company with architecture but to have it snubbed. — J. M. W. Turner

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

I think architecture, to be really intense and fulfilling, doesn't have to be large. — Steven Holl

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

Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house. — Bjarke Ingels

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 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

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

Tradition is a challenge to innovation.. — Alvaro Siza Vieira

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

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 think all good architecture should challenge you, make you start asking questions. You don't have to understand it. You may not like it. That's OK. — Thom Mayne

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

Architecture is a negotiated art, and it's highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required. — Thom Mayne

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do. — Elvis Costello

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

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

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

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

I wanted to disconnect from contemporary architecture — Rem Koolhaas

You don't need to spend a lot of money on stuff when you have amazing architecture. — Nate Berkus

I think all writing about art is in some way dancing to architecture. It's all about similitude, being analogous, metaphorical, adjectival, etc. — Rob Chapman

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

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

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

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

I want to abolish time, especially in the contemplation of architecture. — Piet Mondrian

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

Architecture is supposed to complete nature. Great architecture makes nature more beautiful-it gives it power. — Claudio Silvestrin

References to all works of art, tombs, tunnels, and architecture in Rome are entirely factual — Dan Brown

Modernism in architecture went hand in hand with socialist and fascist projects to rid old Europe of its hierarchical past — Roger Scruton

Trying to explain music is like trying to dance architecture. — Thelonious Monk

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

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

To make architecture with any real value is a massive challenge. — Thomas Heatherwick

For architecture, nature provides only indications and analogies, not models to imitate. — Leon Krier