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Later works are better because it takes a lot of time in architecture to mature. And, it takes a lot of discipline to experience everything that is changing around you.

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

Like medicine (architecture) must move from the curative to the preventive.

Literary lineage is part of your autobiography. The authors are the literary base, the image base, the character base that you bring into your civilian work. Same with film, architecture, music, sports. That's one tributary of the autobiography.

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

Man, there's another freedom out there, and it comes from somewhere else, and that somewhere else is the place I'm interested in.

Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.

Modern architecture is not a style, it's an attitude

Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings ... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must always be something new and better.

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.

Minimal art went nowhere.

Minimalism is not defined by what is not there but by the rightness of what is and the richness with which this is experienced.

Money shows [man] new ways to cheat life. Power becomes exterior instead of interior. In these circumstances architecture becomes too difficult, building too easy.

Montreal's a unique city, very fascinating stories of architecture and history, and it's this sort of bizarre mixture of Europe and North America. It's not quite Canada and it's not quite America, and it's definitely got this very Euro feel to it. It's a very, very interesting city.

My favorite project is always the next one.

Most of what you see in architecture are watered-down ideas of sculptors who have come before.

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.

Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music.

My apartment reflects my views as an architect. It is minimal, austere. The architecture doesn't impose itself upon you. The apartment is a stage for other things to take place.

My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness.

My furniture is an exercise in architecture or architectural mood.

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.

My architecture is easy to understand. And enjoy. I hope it also is hard to forget.

My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture

...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.

New security architecture is being laid down in the Northern Middle East, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, in which pro-Iranian governments are consolidating their grip on the territory and they're backed by Russia, to a large degree. And this has caused great grief and consternation in Saudi Arabia and amongst many of the United States' allies, Israel, the Gulf countries, Turkey, because they see this new architecture of security and Iranian influence and Russian influence as something that's very bad for them.

Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children.

Newton, for instance, attempted to comprehend the diversities of the universe with a single system of mathematical laws, the objectivity, sobriety and logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which, while accepting variations and adjustments according to climate and other needs, could be applied universally.

No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

Ninety percent of the buildings we live in and around aren't architecture. No, that's not right - 98 percent.

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

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.

No building was safe from the furniture, the pictures, the human beings that it would presently contain.

No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.

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.

Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture.

Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.

One might regard architecture as history arrested in stone.

Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.

Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.

Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.

One cannot make architecture without studying the condition of life in the city

Only architecture that considers human scale and interaction is successful architecture.

One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.

Only in intimate communion with solitude may man find himself. Solitude is good company and my architecture is not for those who fear or shun it.

One of the most persistent yet elusive dreams of the Modern Movement in architecture has been prefabrication: industrially made structures that can be assembled at a building site.

Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.

Open-source code is extremely well-adapted to service-oriented architecture.