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.
The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.
Voltaire
They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.
Henry David Thoreau
We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us.Winston Churchill
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
Jim Rohn
I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.
Ayn Rand
“Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.”
Le Corbusier.