Architecture quotes

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

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

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

I call architecture frozen music.

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

As a designer, the mission with which we have been charged is simple: providing space at the right cost.

I am but an architectural composer.

I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.

Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent, one window not so great.

Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.

In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings.

My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone.

Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.