Quotes about Architecture
As a general rule, when a new industry takes root, and the first products emerge in a wave, almost always the architecture of the product will be proprietary and interdependent in character.
— Clayton M. Christensen
The city is built To music, therefore never built at all, And therefore built forever.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
— Winston Churchill
Happily, the architect had foresight to build it strong: the narrow windows are deeply set in the wall, and the corners defended with large jutting stones. Before
— Emily Bronte
For it is not meters, but a metermaking argument that makes a poem—a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of a plant or an animal it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Money shows [man] new ways to cheat life. Power becomes exterior instead of interior. In these circumstances architecture becomes too difficult, building too easy.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.
— Oscar Wilde
The tragic side of many architectural enterprises is that they destroy natural beauties which are a priceless possession and cannot be replaced.
— Helen Keller
Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
— Audre Lorde
The job of the architect becomes more difficult in this secular age. Where once he had a god to extol, he now has humans like himself; where once he had "he," he now has "she" and "they.
— Nikki Giovanni
I think Miss Monroe as architecture is extremely good architecture, and she's a very natural actress, and a very good one.
— Frank Lloyd Wright