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| Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money. | Ambrose Bierce | 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary'' |
| The only legitimate artists in England are the architects. | Benjamin Haydon | 1786-1846, British Artist |
| Fashion is ARCHITECTURE: it is a matter of proportions. | Coco Chanel | 1883-1971, French Couturier |
| When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers. | Colleen C. Barrett | |
| ARCHITECTURE is inhabited sculpture. | Constantin Brancusi | 1876-1957, Romanian Sculptor |
| In short, the building becomes a theatrical demonstration of its functional ideal. In this romanticism, high-tech ARCHITECTURE is, of course, no different in spirit -- if totally different in form -- from all the romantic ARCHITECTURE of the past. | Dan Cruickshank | |
| Writing about music is like dancing about ARCHITECTURE; it's a really stupid thing to want to do. | Elvis Costello | 1955-, British-born American Musician, Singer, Songwriter |
| Heredity is a strong factor, even in ARCHITECTURE. Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma. | Elwyn B(rooks) White (1899-1985, | American Author, Editor |
| Prose is ARCHITECTURE, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over. | Ernest Hemingway | 1898-1961, American Writer |
| ARCHITECTURE is petrified music. | Felix E. Schelling | 1858-1945, American Educator |
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| The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. | Frank Lloyd Wright | 1869-1959, American Architect |
| A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. | Frank Lloyd Wright | 1869-1959, American Architect |
| All fine architectural values are human vales, else not valuable. | Frank Lloyd Wright | 1869-1959, American Architect |
| All ARCHITECTURE is great ARCHITECTURE after sunset; perhaps ARCHITECTURE is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. | Gilbert K. Chesterton | 1874-1936, British Author |
| A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature. | Guillaume Apollinaire | 1880-1918, Italian-born French Poet, Critic |
| Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines, but was headlong sent with his industrious crew to build in hell. | John Milton | 1608-1674, British Poet |
| No ARCHITECTURE is so haughty as that which is simple. | John Ruskin | 1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist |
| When we build, let us think that we build for ever. | John Ruskin | 1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist |
| An 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 Ruskin | 1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist |
| No 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 Ruskin | 1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist |
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| We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears! | John Ruskin | 1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist |
| A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of ARCHITECTURE and poetry and a hundred in dress. | Joyce Carey | |
| Opera, next to Gothic ARCHITECTURE, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process. | Kenneth, Lord Clark | |
| The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of ARCHITECTURE; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music. | Lord Shaftesbury | 1671-1713, British Statesman |
| Form ever follows function. | Louis Henry Sullivan | |
| In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern ARCHITECTURE. | Nancy Banks-Smith | |
| All architects want to live beyond their deaths. | Philip Johnson | 1906-, American Architect and Theorist |
| ARCHITECTURE is the art of how to waste space. | Philip Johnson | 1906-, American Architect and Theorist |
| You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that. | Prince of Wales Charles | 1948-, Duke of Edinburgh, Son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip |
| Don't fight forces, use them. | R. Buckminster Fuller | 1895-1983, American Inventor, Designer, Poet, Philosopher |
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| The job of buildings is to improve human relations: ARCHITECTURE must ease them, not make them worse. | Ralph Erskine | |
| Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, ARCHITECTURE or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist |
| I don't think of form as a kind of ARCHITECTURE. The ARCHITECTURE is the result of the forming. It is the kinaesthetic and visual sense of position and wholeness that puts the thing into the realm of art. | Roy Lichtenstein | 1923, American Artist |
| The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau ARCHITECTURE. | Salvador Dali | 1904-1989, Spanish Painter |
| 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 | 1612-1680, British Poet, Satirist |
| The principle of the Gothic ARCHITECTURE is infinity made imaginable. | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher |
| Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders. | Seneca | 4 B.C. ¾ 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher |
| ARCHITECTURE is to make us know and remember who we are. | Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe | |
| ''Where do architects and designers get their ideas?'' The answer, of course, is mainly from other architects and designers, so is it mere casuistry to distinguish between tradition and plagiarism? | Stephen Bayley | 1951-, British Design Critic |
| Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building. | Thomas Fuller | 1608-1661, British Clergyman, Author |
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| I 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. [On his college registration experience] | Tom Selleck | 1945-, American Actor |
| A modern, harmonic and lively ARCHITECTURE is the visible sign of an authentic democracy. | Walter Gropius | 1883-1969, German Architect |
