Top 300 Most Famous Architecture Quotes of All Time

Cities are the greatest creations of humanity. -Daniel Libeskind

If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness. -Tadao Ando

Nothing requires the architect’s care more than the due proportions of buildings. -Marcus V. Pollio

Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns. -Arne Jacobsen

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

What people want, above all, is order. -Stephen Gardiner

The interior of the house personifies the private world the exterior of it is part of the outside world. -Stephen Gardiner

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

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves. -Julia Morgan

We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don’t go anywhere. They shouldn’t be restless. -Minoru Yamasaki

But the building’s identity resided in the ornament. -Louis Sullivan

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 Coe

I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach? -Philip Johnson

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

Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times. -Richard Rogers

Warmth isn’t what minimalists are thought to have. -Maya Lin

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

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture. -Steve Martin

Architecture begins where engineering ends. -Walter Gropius

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

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

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

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

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

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 paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work. -Bob Dylan

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over. -Ernest Hemingway

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

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions. -Coco Chanel

I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect. -Alexander Jackson Davis

I am but an architectural composer. -Alexander Jackson Davis