(421 quotes found)
“Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and easier.”
Victor Hugo
“Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.”
Louis Kahn
“Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
“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 Johnson
“Type is one of the most eloquent means of expression in every epoch of style. Next to architecture, it gives the most characteristic portrait of a period and the most severe testimony of a nation's intellectual status.”
Peter Behrens
“The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.”
“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
“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 greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government”
Milton Friedman
“I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people.”
Donna Karan
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