Top Architecture Quotes
To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.
Daniel Libeskind
The organizational architecture is really that a centipede walks on hundred legs and one or two don't count. So if I lose one or two legs, the process will go on, the organization will go on, the growth will go on.
Mukesh Ambani
I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character.
Maya Lin
All real education is the architecture of the soul.
William Bennett
Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
Steve Martin
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I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.
Barry Mann 
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Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.
Frank Lloyd Wright
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Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.
Robert Smithson
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The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions.
Helmut Jahn
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I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more.
Thom Mayne
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In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures.
Maya Lin
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I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them.
Maya Lin
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The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.
Thomas Reid
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There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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