Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Architecture

• Few people have the imagination for reality.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspiration, Reality, People

• Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Frozen, Liquid, Architecture

• I call architecture frozen music.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Music, Badass, Bad Ass

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1839). “Conversations with Goethe in the Last Years of His Life”, p.282

• I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Frozen, Paper, Architecture

• Architecture is crystallized music.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Architecture

• I have found a paper of mine among some others in which I call architecture 'petrified music.' Really there is something in this; the tone of mind produced by architecture approaches the effect of music.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Mind, Paper, Tone

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.356, Ravenio Books

• Architecture is frozen music.
  [Ger., Die Backunst ist eine erstarrte Musik.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Frozen, Architecture, Dies

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