279 private quotes tagged architecture

“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

“There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.”— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Whatever good things we build end up building us.”— Jim Rohn

“They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.”— Henry David Thoreau

“I call architecture frozen music.”— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

“When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan.”— Tadao Ando

“A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.”— Lord Byron

“Architecture is politics.”— Mitchell Kapor

“All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.”— Philip Johnson

“Architecture in general is frozen music.”— Friedrich von Schelling

“Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.”— Coco Chanel

“Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.”— Antonio Gaudi

“I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.”— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“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

“A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.”— Ayn Rand

“All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.”— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

“We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us.”— Winston Churchill

“My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness.”— Thom Mayne

“Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.”— Ernest Hemingway

“The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.”— Voltaire

“Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.”— Ernest Hemingway

“The higher the building the lower the morals.”— Noel Coward

“Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.”— Alvar Aalto