Architecture - Maxioms.comQuotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxiomshttp://maxioms.comen-usCopyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.<![CDATA[I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65176<![CDATA[When I lately stood with a friend before [the cathedral of] Amiens, . . . he asked me how it ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3024<![CDATA[Architecture is the art of how to waste space. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3025<![CDATA[Grandeur . . . consists in form, and not in size: and to the eye of the philosopher, the curve ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3026<![CDATA[In the elder days of Art, Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part; For ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3027<![CDATA[The architect Built his great heart into these sculptured stones, And with him toiled his children, and their lives ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3028<![CDATA[Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3029<![CDATA[There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3030<![CDATA[Anon, out of the earth a fabric huge Rose, like an exhalation. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3031<![CDATA[Nor did there want Cornice or frieze with bossy sculpture graven. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3032<![CDATA[The hasty multitude Admiring enter'd, and the work some praise, And some the architect: his hand was known ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3033<![CDATA[Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2999<![CDATA[The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3000<![CDATA[All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3001<![CDATA[There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk around, ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3002<![CDATA[Architecture is a social act and the material theater of human activity. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3003<![CDATA[Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3004<![CDATA[Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3005<![CDATA[An architect is the drawer of dreams ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3006<![CDATA[Architecture is music in space, as it were a frozen music ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3007<![CDATA[Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3008<![CDATA[Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3009<![CDATA[There was King Bradmond's palace, Was never none richer, the story says: For all the windows and the walls ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3010<![CDATA[For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3011<![CDATA[And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither: so ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3012<![CDATA[The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3013<![CDATA[Old houses mended, Cost little less than new, before they're ended. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3014<![CDATA[Silently as a dream the fabric rose; No sound of hammer or of saw was there. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3015<![CDATA[A man who could build a church, as one may say, by squinting at a sheet of paper. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3016<![CDATA[The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man. The mountain of ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3017<![CDATA[Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As best gem upon her zone. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3018<![CDATA[The hand that rounded Peter's dome And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity; ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3019<![CDATA[An arch never sleeps. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3020<![CDATA[Architecture is frozen music. [Ger., Die Backunst ist eine erstarrte Musik.] ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3021<![CDATA[Rich windows that exclude the light, And passages that lead to nothing. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3022<![CDATA[No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung, Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung. Majestic silence. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3023