(421 quotes found)
“Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.”
Frank Gehry
“Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.”
Julia Morgan
“I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.”
G. K. Chesterton
“Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's a really stupid thing to want to do”
Elvis Costello
“I think the future of architecture does not lie so much in continuing to fill up the landscape as in bringing back life and order to our cities and towns.”
Gottfried Boehm
“Architecture is the art of how to waste space.”
Philip Johnson
“Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.”
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
“Art is a jealous mistress, and, if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture, or philosophy, he makes a bad husband, and an ill provider, and should be wise in season, and not fetter himself with duties which will embitter his day”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.”
Victor Hugo
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