Architecture begins where engineering ends.

Walter Gropius

Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real.

Frank Stella

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

Philip Johnson

Architecture should speak of its time

and place,

but yearn for timelessness.

Frank Gehry

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.

Michael Graves

God is in the details.

Mies van der Rohe

A house is a machine

for living in.

Le Corbusier

The architect must be a prophet, a prophet in the true sense of the term. If he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect.

Frank Lloyd Wright

It is not the right angle that attracts me, nor the straight line, hard and inflexible, created by man.

What attracts me is the free and sensual curve — the curve that I find in the mountains of my country, in the sinuous course of its rivers, in the body of the beloved woman.

Oscar Niemeyer