Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
Steve MartinNo architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.
John RuskinLet architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees, Just give me a home in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.
R. Buckminster FullerThey can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.
Henry David ThoreauI call architecture frozen music.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheAn architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking bar at the site.
Frank Lloyd WrightThe terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
Salvador DaliI 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 DylanEvery man's work whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else is always a portrait of himself.
Samuel ButlerSwitzerland 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 HemingwayThe ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture their amphitheaters for wild beasts to fight in.
VoltaireWe are called to be architects of the future not its victims.
R. Buckminster FullerI 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. ChestertonFashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.
Coco ChanelAll architecture is great architecture after sunset, perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art like the art of fireworks.
Gilbert K. ChestertonOrganic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort expressed in organic simplicity.
Frank Lloyd WrightTHOSE who deny God the Supreme Will or the First Cause can give no real satisfactory justification for their stand, nor can those who assert that there is God. Both have to rely on their own experience. After all how can sweetness be denied by one who refuses to taste sugar? How can one be convinced that sugar is sweet until one tastes it? We have to feel the great marvel of energy manipulating both the minutest atom and cell and the vastest most distant star. How else can we understand the Omnipresence and Omnipotence except by accepting God as the Architect of the Cosmos?
Sai BabaMaybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
Frank Lloyd WrightAn architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress and what by a dome.
John RuskinEvery great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time his day his age.
Frank Lloyd WrightThe mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
Frank Lloyd WrightProse is architecture not interior decoration and the Baroque is over.
Ernest HemingwayA great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated enriched heart.
Frank Lloyd WrightArchitect. One who drafts a plan of your house and plans a draft of your money.
Ambrose Bierce[Critics of the reforms are unlikely to be assuaged and they will raise many of their concerns again when the reform bill returns to the Commons in October before heading to the Lords. Its architects might do well to reflect on another quote from one of Woodrow Wilson's contemporaries.] There's nothing wrong with change ... if it's in the right direction.
Winston ChurchillIt is impossible as impossible as to raise the dead to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman can never be recalled.
John RuskinThere are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
Gilbert K. ChestertonNo person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter he can only be a builder.
John RuskinAll fine architectural values are human values else not valuable.
Frank Lloyd WrightNoble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
Frank Lloyd WrightIt seems a fantastic paradox but it is nevertheless a most important truth that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
John RuskinArchitecture 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 HugoA doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
Frank Lloyd WrightThe physician can bury his mistakes but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.
Frank Lloyd WrightA man that has a taste of music painting or architecture is like one that has another sense when compared with such as have no relish of those arts
Joseph AddisonThe architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect.
Frank Lloyd WrightThe architect should strive continually to simplify, the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.
Frank Lloyd Wright