The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines. Saul Steinberg on architecture
Buildings should serve people, not the other way around. John Portman on architecture
Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition. John Portman on architecture
My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone. Julia Morgan on architecture
In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings. Delia Ephron on architecture
Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time. Richard Meier on architecture
Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent, one window not so great. Enid Nemy on architecture
I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect. Alexander Jackson Davis on architecture
Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions. Coco Chanel on architecture
The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government. Milton Friedman on architecture
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. Bob Dylan on architecture
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over. Ernest Hemingway on architecture
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. Ernest Hemingway on architecture
The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in. Voltaire on architecture
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. Victor Hugo on architecture
There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds. Gilbert K. Chesterton on architecture