“Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie open unto the fields, and to the sky.”
William Wordsworth
CitiesBeauty
Architecture Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · ARCHITECTURE
Architecture Quotes
Read the best architecture quotes on design, beauty, buildings and building for the future from Vitruvius, John Ruskin, Louis Sullivan and more.
“High growths of iron, slender, strong, light, splendidly uprising toward clear skies.”
Walt Whitman
SkyscrapersCities
“The carpenter singing his as he measures his plank or beam, the mason singing his as he makes ready for work.”
Walt Whitman
BuildersCraftsmanship
“I built my soul a lordly pleasure-house, wherein at ease for aye to dwell.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
SoulPalaces
“Anon out of the earth a fabric huge rose like an exhalation.”
John Milton
Grand BuildingsWonder
“Leave the goodly fabrics of houses, for beauty only, to the enchanted palaces of the poets; who build them with small cost.”
Francis Bacon
FunctionFunny
“When ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely; as if gardening were the greater perfection.”
Francis Bacon
GardensLandscape
“Beauty is a harmony of objects, begetting pleasure by the eye.”
Christopher Wren
BeautyHarmony
“Architecture has its political use; public buildings being the ornament of a country.”
Christopher Wren
Public BuildingsNations
“A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.”
Benjamin Franklin
HomeMind
“How is a taste in this beautiful art to be formed in our countrymen, unless we avail ourselves of every occasion when public buildings are to be erected, of presenting to them models for their study and imitation?”
Thomas Jefferson
Public BuildingsTaste
“The house that is to be builded for the Lord must be exceeding magnifical.”
The Bible (1 Chronicles 22:5)
Grand BuildingsFaith
“Let us rise up and build.”
The Bible (Nehemiah 2:18)
BuildingMotivation
“Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables.”
The Bible (Habakkuk 2:2)
VisionPlanning
“Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thine house.”
The Bible (Proverbs 24:27)
PreparationHome
“Walk about Zion, mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces.”
The Bible (Psalm 48:12-13)
CitiesObservation
“Thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach.”
The Bible (Isaiah 58:12)
RestorationLegacy
“According to all that I shew thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle, even so shall ye make it.”
The Bible (Exodus 25:9)
BlueprintsDesign
“And I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship, to devise cunning works.”
The Bible (Exodus 31:3-4)
CraftsmanshipTalent
“Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof?”
The Bible (Job 38:6)
FoundationCreation
“The Lord by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens.”
The Bible (Proverbs 3:19)
CreationWisdom
“When sometime lofty towers I see down-razed, and brass eternal slave to mortal rage.”
William Shakespeare
TimeImpermanence
“The singing masons building roofs of gold.”
William Shakespeare
BuildersCraftsmanship
“What is the city but the people?”
William Shakespeare
CitiesPeople
“The skilful closer needs no bolts or bars, while to open what he has shut will be impossible.”
Lao Tzu
SkillDesign