Top 300 Most Famous Architecture Quotes of All Time

Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture. Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country. -Bob Barr

There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. -Kenzo Tange

Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society. -Kenzo Tange

Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process. -Kenneth Clark

What’s fascinating about D.C., the exteriors are these elaborate structures, this gorgeous architecture and beautiful stonework, and then you go inside and it’s crap-looking – apart from the White House, which is beautiful. -Tony Hale

I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play.-Philip Warren Anderson

I would’ve been intrigued by being a film director. I would’ve been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.-Charlie Rose

I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verite is film in its purest form.-George Hickenlooper

I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and get my Masters in architecture. I’d done theatricals in college, but I’d done them because it was fun.-James Stewart

But after the time there I’d had it with fashion again, so I left to go to architecture school in a summer course at Harvard, which didn’t last very long.-Stephen Sprouse

The job of buildings is to improve human relations: architecture must ease them, not make them worse. -Ralph Erskine

But I feel truly wowed by the architecture and the meaning of the architecture if you get lost in it and think about the man hours in the smallest little chapel, and the love involved. God it’s fantastic. -Paul Bettany

There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time. -James H. Breasted

I went to school for engineering, I studied jazz. So I always had this kind of creative side and technical side, and I thought architecture might be the way to combine them, so I went to architecture school in New York. -Joseph Kosinski

An important work of architecture will create polemics. -Richard Meier

The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture. -Ian Hamilton Finlay