To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.

- Ai Weiwei

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.

- Adolf Loos

The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.

- Adolf Loos

Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.

- Antoni Gaudi

Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.

- Arne Jacobsen

Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.

- Arthur Erickson

Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.

- Arthur Erickson

Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.

- Bruce Jackson

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

- Ayn Rand

Architecture is inhabited sculpture.

- Constantin Brancusi

Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.

- Daniel Burnham

I am but an architectural composer.

- Alexander Jackson Davis

I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.

- Alexander Jackson Davis

Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.

- Bryant H. McGill

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

- Ayn Rand

Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.

- Arthur Erickson

Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.

- Antoni Gaudi

Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.

- Arne Jacobsen

Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.

- Alvar Aalto

We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.

- Alvar Aalto