Architecture quotes

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◆ A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

- Robertson Davies100

◆ 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 Coe100

◆ Whatever good things we build end up building us.

- Jim Rohn100

◆ Our architecture reflects truly as a mirror.

- Louis Henri Sullivan99

◆ Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over

- Ernest Hemingway99

◆ Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson99

◆ A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines.

- Frank Lloyd Wright99

◆ Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can turn down some clients, but we've both got to say yes to someone if we want to stay in business.

- Philip Johnson99

◆ Architecture is music in space, as it were a frozen music

- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Von Schelling99

◆ Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul

- Ernest Dimnet99

◆ Architecture is a social act and the material theater of human activity.

- Spiro Kostof99

◆ Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of the old. Where else can we find such unity of material, construction and form? Here the wisdom of whole generations is stored. What feelings for material and what power of expression there is in these buildings! What warmth and beauty they have! They seem to be echoes of old songs.

- Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe99

◆ And just as we acquaint ourselves with materials, just as we must understand functions, so we must become familiar with the psychological and spiritual factors of our day. No cultural activity is possible otherwise; for we are dependent on the spirit of our time.

- Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe99

◆ Let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work. Let us lead them into the healthy world of primitive building methods, where there was meaning in every stroke of an axe, expression in every bite of chisel.

- Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe99

◆ True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure of us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life.

- Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe99