Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.

Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it.

All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.

Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.

Ideas are the root of creation.

The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.

Ideas are the roots of creation.

Do not read good books life is too short for that read only the best.

Children have to be educated but they have also to be left to educate themselves.

You can believe in God without believing in immortality but it is hard to see how anyone can believe in immortality and not believe in God.

Personality is the knowledge that we are apart from the rest of the universe.

Prejudices subsist in people's imagination long after they have been destroyed by their experience.

In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture.

People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that's both liberating and alarming.

The organizational architecture is really that a centipede walks on hundred legs and one or two don't count. So if I lose one or two legs, the process will go on, the organization will go on, the growth will go on.

The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics.

Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.

The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture.

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.

Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture.

I studied architecture in New York. So, really I was very moved, like everyone else, to try to contribute something that has that resonance and profundity of it means to all of us.

Architecture in general is frozen music.

But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean.

To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.

The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams.

French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community.

What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality.

Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.

The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.

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.

Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward.

If you examine this, I think that you will find that it's the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture.

I don't believe in morality in architecture.

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture.

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.