Quotes About Architecture

You can put down a bad book; you can avoid listening to bad music; but you cannot miss the ugly tower block opposite your house.

You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.

If music is frozen architecture, then the potpourri is frozen coffee-table gossip... Potpourri is the art of adding apples to pears.

There's certain things in life that I love. One is architecture. And music, culture, food, people. New Orleans has all of that.

Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music.

Elgar's first symphony is the musical equivalent of St Pancras Railway Station.

Obviously for some people there is a big connection between music and the way you can create a space.

Madam de Stael pronounced architecture to be frozen music; so is statuary crystalized spirituality.

Music, architecture and pictures have always been my passions, and all that material wealth has meant for me, is being able to have some of the pictures I liked.

I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music.

I love church buildings, particularly cathedrals, and I like living in spaces that remind me of music or evoke that creative energy.

When I see architecture that moves me, I hear music in my inner ear

If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports.

A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.

I don't believe architecture has to speak too much. It should remain silent and let nature in the guise of sunlight and wind

We borrow from nature the space upon which we build.

Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation

Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme.

I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Buildings are deeply emotive structures which form our psyche. People think they're just things they maneuver through, but the makeup of a person is influenced by the nature of spaces.

...Nature builds up her refined and invisible architecture, with a delicacy eluding our conception, yet with a symmetry and beauty which we are never weary of admiring.

Architecture is a political act, by nature. It has to do with the relationships between people and how they decide to change their conditions of living.

From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily as sentences.

If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.