"A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature."

Apollinaire, Guillaume on Architecture
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"In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture."

Banks-Smith, Nancy on Architecture
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"When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers."

Barrett, Colleen C. on Architecture
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"Where do architects and designers get their ideas? The answer, of course, is mainly from other architects and designers, so is it mere casuistry to distinguish between tradition and plagiarism?"

Bayley, Stephen on Architecture
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"Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money."

Bierce, Ambrose on Architecture
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"Architecture is inhabited sculpture."

Brancusi, Constantin on Architecture
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"You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that."

Charles, Prince Of Wales on Architecture
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"All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on Architecture
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"A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People ask why we have no typical architecture of the modern world, like impressionism in painting. Surely it is obviously because we have not enough dogmas; we cannot bear to see anything in the sky that is solid and enduring, anything in the sky that does not change like the clouds of the sky."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on Architecture
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"The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on Architecture
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"In short, the building becomes a theatrical demonstration of its functional ideal. In this romanticism, high-tech architecture is, of course, no different in spirit -- if totally different in form -- from all the romantic architecture of the past."

Cruickshank, Dan on Architecture
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"The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture."

Dali, Salvador on Architecture
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"The job of buildings is to improve human relations: architecture must ease them, not make them worse."

Erskine, Ralph on Architecture
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"Don't fight forces, use them."

Fuller, R. Buckminster on Architecture
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"Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building."

Fuller, Thomas on Architecture
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"A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of an authentic democracy."

Gropius, Walter on Architecture
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"Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its separate parts. Only then will their work be imbued with the architectonic spirit which it has lost as salon art. Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith."

Gropius, Walter on Architecture
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"The only legitimate artists in England are the architects."

Haydon, Benjamin on Architecture
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"Architecture is to make us know and remember who we are."

Jellicoe, Sir Geoffrey on Architecture
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"All architects want to live beyond their deaths."

Johnson, Philip on Architecture
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"Architecture is the art of how to waste space."

Johnson, Philip on Architecture
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"I don't think of form as a kind of architecture. The architecture is the result of the forming. It is the kinesthetic and visual sense of position and wholeness that puts the thing into the realm of art."

Lichtenstein, Roy on Architecture
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"Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, are merely shadows cast by outward things on stone or canvas, having in themselves no separate existence. Architecture, existing in itself, and not in seeming a something it is not, surpasses them as substance shadow."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on Architecture
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"Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines, but was headlong sent with his industrious crew to build in hell."

Milton, John on Architecture
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"The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian condition: here it is the mighty act of will, the will which moves mountains, the intoxication of the strong will, which demands artistic expression. The most powerful men have always inspired the architects; the architect has always been influenced by power."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Architecture
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