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| Arkitektur är frusen musik. | Friedrich von Schelling (1775-1854) |
| Arkitektur är frusen musik. | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) |
| Den som låter en arkitekt inreda sitt hus ska inte bli förvånad om huset efteråt ser ut som om han inte bodde där. | Oliver Hassencamp (1921-1988) |
| Den som tycker det går för långsamt med husbygget ska inkvartera sig hos arkitekten. | Jan de Mulder |
| En arkitekt är en sorts matematiker som envist hänger fast vid tanken att han egentligen är konstnär. | Carl Hammarén (1922-1990) |
| En läkare kan begrava sina misstag, men en arkitekt kan bara råda sina kunder att odla vildvin. | Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) |
| Fyrkanten - huset - rummet är skapat av rädsla för naturens fria kaos. | Odd Nerdrum (1944-) |
| Förbrytare och arkitekter återvänder alltid till brottsplatsen. | Peter Ustinov (1921-2004) |
| Förmodligen kommer man en dag att inse att andra världskrigets bomber orsakade mindre skada på Londons stadsbild än dagens arkitekter. | Lord Snowdon |
| Jag anser att byggverk till att vara toppen av mänskligt yttrande | Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) |
| Ljuset, Guds äldsta dotter, är en av de viktigaste skönhetsskapande faktorerna i ett hus. | Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) |
| Vi formar våra byggnader, därefter formar de oss. | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| Visa mig hur du bygger och jag ska säga dig vem du är. | Christian Morgenstern (1871-1914) |
| Hva betyr vel arkitekturen i de fleste menneskers bevissthet? | Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) |
| Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul | Ernest Dimnet (1866-1954) |
| Architecture is music in space, as it were a frozen music | Friedrich von Schelling (1775-1854) |
| The architectural profession gave the public 50 years of modern architecture and the public's response has been 10 years of the greatest wave of historical preservation in the history of man. | George E. Hartman |
| An architect is the drawer of dreams | Grace McGarvie |
| In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions: Commodity, Firmness and Delight. | Henry Watton |
| Architects believe that not only do they sit at the right hand of God, but that if God ever gets up, they take the chair | Karen Moyer |
| Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light. | Le Corbusier (1887-1965) |
| Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins. | Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969) |
| This building is like a book. Its architecture is the binding, its text is in the glass and sculpture. | Malcolm Miller |
| Architecture is politics. | Mitchell Kapor |
| Buildings don't exist to be pinned, like brooches, on the front of bigger structures to which they bear only the most distant of relationships. | Paul Goldberger |
| Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can turn down some clients, but we've both got to say yes to someone if we want to stay in business. | Philip Johnson (1906-) |
| All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space. | Philip Johnson (1906-) |
| Architecture is the art of how to waste space. | Philip Johnson (1906-) |
| [It is] the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination of architectural conceit and official bad taste. the Cathedral of Asphalt. | Robert Moses (1888-) |
| Architecture is a social act and the material theater of human activity. | Spiro Kostof |
| 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. | J. Russell Lynes (1910-1991) |
| Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. | Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969) |
| Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light. | Le Corbusier (1887-1965) |
| Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. | Laurie Anderson (1947-) |
| An architect is the drawer of dreams | Grace McGarvie |
| Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul | Ernest Dimnet (1866-1954) |
| Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can turn down some clients, but we've both got to say yes to someone if we want to stay in business. | Philip Johnson (1906-) |
| I think Ms. Monroe's architecture is extremely good architecture. | Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) |
| A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart. | Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) |
| This building is like a book. Its architecture is the binding, its text is in the glass and sculpture. | Malcolm Miller |
| Architecture is music in space, as it were a frozen music | Friedrich von Schelling (1775-1854) |
| There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk around, and architecture is art you can walk through | Dan Rice |
| All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space. | Philip Johnson (1906-) |
| Architecture is inhabited sculpture | Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969) |
| Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins. | Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969) |
| Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity. | Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) |
| The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization. | Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) |
| Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is to refine materials in a more human direction. | Alvar Aalto |
| Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions. | Coco Chanel (1883-1971) |
| 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 style of architecture. | Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) |
| A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines. | Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) |
| Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture | Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) |
| Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world. (1939) | Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) |
| 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. [On his college registration experience] | G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) |
| Architecture is the work of nations | John Ruskin (1819-1900) |
| Architects believe that not only do they sit at the right hand of God, but that if God ever gets up, they take the chair | Karen Moyer |
| A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress. | Lord Byron (1788-1824) |
| Our architecture reflects truly as a mirror. | Louis Henri Sullivan (1856-) |
| Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. | Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969) |
| A bicycle shed is a building; Lincoln Cathedral is a piece of architecture. | Nikolaus Pevsner |
| Architecture is a social act and the material theater of human activity. | Spiro Kostof |
| Antagelig vil man en dag komme til det resultat at Den annen verdenskrigs bomber forårsaket mindre skade på Londons bybilde enn våre dagers arkitekter. | Lord Snowdon |
| En lege kan begrave sine feiltagelser, men en arkitekt kan bare gi kunden sin det råd å plante eføy. | Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) |
| Forbrytere og arkitekter vender tilbake til åstedet. | Peter Ustinov (1921-2004) |