Favorite Quotations ~ Architecture

Square watercolor in Daily Celebrations style — arches, geometry, light and shadow Architecture is the mother art — a balance of form, light, and spirit. As Goethe observed: “Architecture is frozen music.”🎶

“Ignorance transcends architecture.” ~ James Gaskin

“Our architecture reflects truly as a mirror.” ~ Louis Sullivan

“You really can’t function as a celebrity. Entertainers are celebrities. I’m an architect. I’m an artist. I make things.” ~ Maya Lin

“True architecture exists only where man stands in the center.” ~ Alvar Aalto

“Architect: One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.” ~ Ambrose Bierce

“The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.” ~ Voltaire

“Architecture is frozen music.” ~ Johann von Goethe

“The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.” ~ Frank Lloyd Wright

“Architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. Creative work is expressed in our time as a union of technology and humanity.” ~ Kenzo Tange

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

“A design career is a process of learning better and better what you know instinctively.” ~ Mario Bellini

“Architects cannot teach nature anything.” ~ Mark Twain

“Greek architecture is the flowering of geometry.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.” ~ Arthur Erickson

“Architecture is reaching out for the truth.” ~ Louis Kahn

“The responsibility of an architect is to create a sense of order, a sense of place, a sense of relationship.” ~ Richard Meier