Architecture Quotes - Page 3

• Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.

  Richard Rogers

  Principles, Form, Profit

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

  Ernest Hemingway

  Literature, Baroque Music, Decoration

  Ernest Hemingway (2002). “Death in the Afternoon”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all the truth of their habits from the remains of their monuments or from their domestic relics.

  Honore de Balzac

  Badass, Bad Ass, Events

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• It is therefore indisputable that the limbs of architecture are derived from the limbs of man.

  Michelangelo

  Badass, Bad Ass, Men

  Michelangelo Buonarroti, E. H. Ramsden (1963). “The Letters of Michelangelo”, p.129, Stanford University Press

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• When we mean to build, We first survey the plot, then draw the model; And when we see the figure of the house, Then must we rate the cost of the erection.

  William Shakespeare

  Mean, House, Plot

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 1, sc. 3, l. [41]

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

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Graduation, Hope, Carpe Diem

  "The Everlasting Man". Book by G. K. Chesterton, V: Man and Mythologies, 1925.

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• Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.

  Arthur Erickson

  Badass, Moving, Heart

  Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.

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• A house is a machine for living in.

  Le Corbusier

  Life, Home, House

  Vers une Architecture ch. 1 (1923)

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• To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.

  Le Corbusier

  Order, Design, Function

  Le Corbusier (1991). “Precisions on the present state of architecture and city planning: with an American prologue, a Brazilian corollary followed by The temperature of Paris and The atmosphere of Moscow”, The MIT Press

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• 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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Music

  Samuel Butler (2016). “The Way of All Flesh”, p.57, Samuel Butler

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• One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.

  Renzo Piano

  Badass, Bad Ass, Starting

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• A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive.

  Helmut Jahn

  Cities, Building, Walks

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• Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Significant Things, Luxury, Rejects

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• There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk around, and architecture is art you can walk through

  Dan Rice

  Art, Three, Looks

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• Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Funny, Money, Badass

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.17, University of Georgia Press

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• Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.

  Harry Seidler

  Beautiful, Hair, Inspirational Business

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  Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

  Coco Chanel

  Fashion, Matter, Proportion

  Quoted in Marcel Haedrich Coco Chanel: Her Life, Her Secrets (1972), ch.1 (translated by Charles Lam Markmann).

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• Architecture never derived its force from stability of culture, but rather from the expression of those moments when that sense of stability slipped.

  Mark Wigley

  Badass, Inspiration, Bad Ass

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• The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.

  Benjamin Haydon

  Artist, England, Architect

  Benjamin Robert Haydon, Frederick Wordsworth Haydon (1876). “Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir”, p.423

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• My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.

  Luis Barragan

  Emotional, House, Pieces

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• Forests were the first temples of the Divinity, and it is in the forests that men have grasped the first idea of architecture.

  François-René de Chateaubriand

  Men, Ideas, Tree

  "Sources of World Civilization: Since 1500". Book by Oliver A. Johnson, 1993.

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• If an architect's ego is very small, he is done for it; if it is vast then he might make some very important contributions.

  Paolo Soleri

  Ego, Important, Done

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• I don't believe in morality in architecture.

  Michael Graves

  Believe, Morality, Don't Believe

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• But then architects don't build their own houses.

  Damien Hirst

  House, Architect

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• If you consider only utility, the things you build will soon be useless... nobody wants to be in it.

  Roger Scruton

  Useless, Want, Utility

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