Famous Quotes

"In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function."

Michael Graves on Architecture

More quotes about Architecture

• "We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us."

  Winston Churchill on Architecture

• "Whatever good things we build end up building us."

  Jim Rohn on Architecture

• "I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build."

  Ayn Rand on Architecture

• "A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom."

  Ayn Rand on Architecture

• "Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age."

  Frank Lloyd Wright on Architecture

More quotes by Michael Graves

• "If I have a style, I am not aware of it."

• "I don't believe in morality in architecture."

• "I have no requirements for a style of architecture."

• "I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention."

• "The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth."