It seems a fantastic paradox but it is nevertheless a most important truth that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

It is impossible as impossible as to raise the dead to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman can never be recalled.

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

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.

Every man's work whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else is always a portrait of himself.

All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art like the art of fireworks.

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

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol but every human thought has its page in that vast book.

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture their amphitheaters for wild beasts to fight in.

Switzerland is a small steep country much more up and down than sideways and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.

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

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people real street scenes behind the curtain scenes live models paintings photographs staged setups architecture grids graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.

The greatest advances of civilization whether in architecture or painting in science and literature in industry or agriculture have never come from centralized government.

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

I call architecture frozen music.

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

In any architecture there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.

The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history.

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