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All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.

» Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) American architect

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

» Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) American poet and educator

We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears!

» John Ruskin (1819-1900) English weiter and art critic

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

» John Ruskin (1819-1900) English weiter and art critic

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

» Salman Rushdie (1948-?) Anglo-Indian novelist

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

» Thomas de Quincey (1785-1859) British author and intellectual

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

» Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) British journalist, novelist and poet ['Father Brown', 'Orthodoxy', 'The Everlasting Man']

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.

» John Milton (1608-1674) English poet, polemicist, man of letters

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.

» John Ruskin (1819-1900) English weiter and art critic

Form ever follows function.

» Louis Henry Sullivan (1856-1924) US architect

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

» Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) British author

Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.

» Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) American newspaperman and short-story writer

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

» Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) French poet, Writerand art critic

An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.

» John Ruskin (1819-1900) English weiter and art critic

When we build, let us think that we build for ever.

» John Ruskin (1819-1900) English weiter and art critic

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.

» Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1895) Scottish essayist, poet and novelist

Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.

» Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) British poet, critic, and philosopher

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