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Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passions of an emperor's love wrought in living stones. — Edwin Arnold

Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture. — Maya Lin

If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else. — Louis Kahn

I think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that. I dream it sometimes. — Zaha Hadid

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

The building is a special place because of its architecture; But it's people who make it special by participating in it. — Charlie Chaplin

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

Architecture isn't just about creating new buildings, sometimes its about retuning what's already there.. — John Pawson

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

Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough. — Zaha Hadid

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

Scribal culture and Gothic architecture were both concerned with light through, not light on. — Marshall McLuhan

As a child, my father's architecture seemed to me to be industrial in a way. It seemed harsh and kind of chilly; I didn't respond to it. — Nathaniel Kahn

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise. — Adolf Loos

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

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

It's time for architecture to do things again, not just represent things. — Joshua Prince-Ramus

For a woman to go out alone into architecture is still very, very hard. It's still a man's world. — Zaha Hadid

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

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

Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings. — Vitruvius

I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial. — Zaha Hadid

Architecture is much more than a profession; It's a discipline. — Odile Decq

I think in doing stand-up there are no rules and there's no architecture. — Michael Ian Black

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

The Fire Department has traditionally considered architecture a priority only when it's burning down. — Justin Davidson

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

Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all. — Harry Seidler

I don't want to do architecture that's dry and dull. — Frank Gehry

Man, there's another freedom out there, and it comes from somewhere else, and that somewhere else is the place I'm interested in. — Frank Gehry

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

Let's do it right. This is for the ages. — I.M. Pei

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

Do I provoke as a method of investigation? Of course. That's the essence of architecture. Do I do it with gusto? I do. — Thom Mayne

There's a technicality to designing and wearing hats. A hat is balancing the proportions of your face; it's like architecture or mathematics. — Philip Treacy

There's certain things in life that I love. One is architecture. And music, culture, food, people. New Orleans has all of that. — Lenny Kravitz

I don't know what London's coming to - the higher the buildings the lower the morals. — Noel Coward

There's nothing Dutch about my architecture. — Rem Koolhaas

I like to play with architecture! It's my favorite game. — Jean Nouvel

The building's identity resided in the ornament. — Louis Sullivan

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

We all love musical architecture; there's no doubt about that. — Levon Helm

The Office's prime approach to architecture ... is one of continuous ANTICIPATORY DESIGN. — Cedric Price

There is much to learn from architecture before it became an expert's art. — Bernard Rudofsky

To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that. — Martha Graham

If only people realized Corbusier is pure nineteenth century, Manchester school utilitarian, and that's why they like him. — Evelyn Waugh

Clearly, if a building is not functionally and technically in order, then it isn't architecture either, it's just a building. — Arne Jacobsen

Home development is about wishful thinking. It's about capturing a dream. — Barbara Delinsky

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

Software architecture plays a pivotal role in the delivery of successful software yet it's frustratingly neglected by many teams. — Simon Brown

I'm a very tactile learner, so I need analog index cards, moving them all about, trying out various sequences for the book's architecture. — Joshua Mohr

There's something about the processional nature of the architecture, of the rooms connecting rooms. It's just breathtaking. — Bill Henson

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

It's not my duty as an architect to look at it — Zaha Hadid

The architecture of my sister's thinking, now phantom. I fall down stairs that are nothing but air. — Jandy Nelson

Modern architecture is not a style, it's an attitude — Marcel Breuer

We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It's like hunger and thirst - you need them both. — Karl Lagerfeld

The purpose of architecture is to shelter and enhance man's life on earth and to fulfill his belief in the nobility of his existence, — Eero Saarinen

The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical. — Maya Lin

Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois. — Le Corbusier

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

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

Only in intimate communion with solitude may man find himself. Solitude is good company and my architecture is not for those who fear or shun it. — Luis Barragan

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art. — Arne Jacobsen

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

Architects cannot teach nature anything. — Mark Twain

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

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

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

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

Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis. — Tadao Ando

I am but an architectural composer. — Alexander Jackson Davis

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

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

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

The meaning resides in one's own experience, making the everyday the exceptional. — Samuel Mockbee

Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building. — John Osborne

I suppose I'm trying to build an architecture that's as timeless as possible, although we're all creatures of our age. — David Chipperfield

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

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

The rigidity of a bottle's form does not affect the fluidity of the liquid it contains. — Leon Krier

For me, architecture is the means, not the end. It's a means of making different life forms possible. — Bjarke Ingels

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

I think Ms. Monroe's architecture is extremely good architecture. — Frank Lloyd Wright

He's so obsessed with trying to analyze the architecture — Jack McDevitt

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

The Venus Project is not about new cities or new architecture. It's about a way of thinking — Jacque Fresco

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

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

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

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

I make no apology for preoccupying myself with architecture, television, conceptual art, restaurants and Jane Asher's cakes. — Will Self

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

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building. — Thomas Fuller