All Quotes

Architecture is inhabited sculpture.
‐‐ Constantin Brancusi

Architecture is invention.
‐‐ Oscar Niemeyer

Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work, like any art.
‐‐ Thom Mayne

Architecture is measured against the past; you build in the future, and you try to imagine the future.
‐‐ Richard Rogers

Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
‐‐ Oscar Niemeyer

Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived.
‐‐ Martin Filler

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

Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth.
‐‐ Alvar Aalto

Architecture is particularly difficult for women; there's no reason for it to be. I don't want to blame men or society, but I think it was for a long time, the clients were men, the building industry is all male.
‐‐ Zaha Hadid

Architecture is politics.
‐‐ Mitchell Kapor

Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house.
‐‐ Bjarke Ingels

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
‐‐ Philip Johnson

Architecture is the beginning of something because it's - if you're not involved in first principles, if you're not involved in the absolute, the beginning of that generative process, it's cake decoration.
‐‐ Thom Mayne

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.
‐‐ Le Corbusier

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.
‐‐ Louis Kahn

Architecture is the story of how we see ourselves. It is the architect's job to service everyday life.
‐‐ Thom Mayne

Architecture is the thoughtful making of space.
‐‐ Louis Kahn

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.
‐‐ Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. Living, Changing, New. Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only such architecture is creative.
‐‐ Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,' there is something arresting in a setting... the building behind the Cathedral.
‐‐ Edith Pearlman

Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.
‐‐ Zaha Hadid

Architecture must not do violence to space or its neighbors.
‐‐ I. M. Pei

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.
‐‐ Ernest Dimnet

Architecture produces a musical mood in our inner being, and we notice that even though the elements of architecture and music appear to be so alien in the outer world, through this musical mood engendered in us, our experience of architecture brings about a reconciliation, a balance between these two elements.
‐‐ Rudolf Steiner

Architecture should be rooted in the past, and yet be part of our own time and forward looking.
‐‐ Moshe Safdie

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.
‐‐ Frank Gehry

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.
‐‐ Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball.
‐‐ Louis Kahn

Architecture students are generally given theoretical projects, often located at distant locations, and told to come up with a design.
‐‐ Alan Huffman

Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.
‐‐ Arne Jacobsen

Architecture to me is whole. I cannot say I only care about this 25% and the other 75% I let go... it's just I want to work the way I want to work. In my shop, you can order certain things and other things you cannot. They are not available.
‐‐ Peter Zumthor

Architecture was always the plan. I always figured I'd just do theater on the side.
‐‐ Michael Lomenda

Architecture was the last of the major professions to devise a formal 'cursus honorum' before its practice could be undertaken.
‐‐ Martin Filler

Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle.
‐‐ Oscar Niemeyer

Archival and published history does not always record personal relationships of historical figures, so characters must be invented to allow the subject to reveal their interior realm through intimate interaction.
‐‐ Susan Vreeland

'Arctic Summer,' as you might know, is the title of Forster's one unfinished novel.
‐‐ Damon Galgut

Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being, to be in every respect conformed to him, and in that way to enjoy him.
‐‐ David Brainerd

Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
‐‐ Ambrose Bierce

Are Christians too stupid that we can't write a script, we can't film a movie OR we don't know how to act?
‐‐ Victoria Jackson

Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.
‐‐ Mahatma Gandhi

'Are 'Friends' Electric?' was two songs: the verse part and the talking part. Two different songs I couldn't finish. One day I was playing the main verse part of 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' and after a few minutes I got frustrated, as normal, then started to play the other song, and realized they went together.
‐‐ Gary Numan

Are hackers a threat? The degree of threat presented by any conduct, whether legal or illegal, depends on the actions and intent of the individual and the harm they cause.
‐‐ Kevin Mitnick

Are ideals confined to this deformed experiment upon a noble purpose, tainted, as it is, with bargains and tied to a peace treaty which might have been disposed of long ago to the great benefit of the world if it had not been compelled to carry this rider on its back?
‐‐ Henry Cabot Lodge

Are Iraqis ready to carry the responsibility for their country? Is Iraq ready to be its own master? We want to be the masters of ourselves and to carry our responsibilities in this region.
‐‐ Ahmed Chalabi

Are kids smarter than adults? All evidence points to that being true.
‐‐ Natalie Jeremijenko

Are men and women different creatures? Do we feel things differently? Being a man, I can't know what a woman feels.
‐‐ Samuel Barnett

Are my politics Democrat or Republican? I think both are horrific. And it doesn't matter anyway. Money runs America; money runs everywhere.
‐‐ Shane Smith

Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.
‐‐ Marquis de Sade

Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
‐‐ Isaac Newton

Are not the gays who seek the right to marry, to formalise their commitment to each other, holding up a mirror to heterosexuals who are marrying less frequently and divorcing more often?
‐‐ Malcolm Turnbull