Famous Quotes

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

Adolf Loos 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 Adolf Loos

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

• "Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art."

• "The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not."

• "Be truthful, nature only sides with truth."

• "Be truthful, nature only sides with truth."