"Architecture aims at Eternity."
– Christopher Wren
"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
"Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future."
– Kenzo Tange
"Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity."
– Frank Lloyd Wright
"Among the planets of the arts, architecture is the dark side of the moon."
– Bruno Zevi
"But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour."
"I call architecture frozen music."
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"In architecture the pride of man, his triumph over gravitation, his will to power, assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms."
– - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Architecture begins where engineering ends."
– Walter Gropius
"Our time is so specialized that we have people who know more and more or less and less."
– Alvar Aalto
"We have used our experince building retail buildings all over the world, and we Know how to make the biggest pieces of glass in the world, for architectural use."
– Steve Jobs-Presentation to the Cupertino City Council (6-7-11)
"All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks."
– Gilbert K. Chesterton
"A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines."
– Frank Lloyd Wright
"I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture."
– Tadao Ando
"Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age."
