100 Buildings Quotes

Following is our list of buildings quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about architecture and design.

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Famous Buildings Quotes

Build what you want to see in the world. — Jack Dorsey

Design is a process - an intimate collaboration between engineers, designers, and clients. — Henry Dreyfuss

If you can dream it you can build it. If you can build it, you can live it. - Sayings

If you can dream it you can build it. If you can build it, you can live it. — Sayings

Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. - Farrah Gray

Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. — Farrah Gray

The design of each element should be thought out in order to be easy to make and easy to repair. — Leo Fender

Build your architecture from what is beneath your feet. — Hassan Fathy

... with proper design, the features come cheaply. This approach is arduous, but continues to succeed. — Dennis Ritchie

Architecture is invention. — Oscar Niemeyer

Design is everything. Everything! - Paul Rand

Design is everything. Everything! — Paul Rand

Design... is the integration of technological, social, and economical requirements, biological necessities, and the psychological effects of materials, shape, color, volume and space. — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality. — Walt Disney

Design is the key to everything. If you learn how to design you can do anything. — Doug Cranmer

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable. — Louis Kahn

To design is to plan, to order, to relate, and to control. In short, it opposes all means of disorder and accident. — Emil Ruder

I'm building a dream with elevators in it. — Rick Ross

Short Buildings Quotes

  • It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. — Frederick Douglass
  • It is so easy to break down and destroy. The heroes are those who make peace and build. — Nelson Mandela
  • Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers. — Nikita Khrushchev
  • Build your own pyramids, write your own hieroglyphs. — Kendrick Lamar
  • Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong. — Calvin Coolidge
  • Let's build bridges, not walls. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Take the stones people throw at you, and use them to build a monument — Ratan Tata
  • There are no shortcuts to building a team each season. You build the foundation brick by brick. — Bill Belichick
  • You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. — Marie Curie
  • If people throw stones at you, pick 'em up and build something. — LeCrae

Buildings Image Quotes

Remember that consciousness is power. Tomorrow's world is yours to build. - Yuri Kochiyama quote

Remember that consciousness is power. Tomorrow's world is yours to build. — Yuri Kochiyama

Buildings quote Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations bui
Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end.
We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. - Marie Curie quote

We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. — Marie Curie

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. - Milton Berle quote

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. — Milton Berle

Buildings quote You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Empowering women is key to building a future we want - Amartya Sen quote

Empowering women is key to building a future we want — Amartya Sen

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. - Henry Ford quote

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. — Henry Ford

Let's build us a happy, little cloud that floats around the sky. - Bob Ross quote

Let's build us a happy, little cloud that floats around the sky. — Bob Ross

Buildings quote It is easier to build up a child than it is to repair and adult.
It is easier to build up a child than it is to repair and adult.
One cannot make architecture without studying the condition of life in the city - Aldo Rossi quote

One cannot make architecture without studying the condition of life in the city — Aldo Rossi

Aerodynamics are for people who can't build engines. - Enzo Ferrari quote

Aerodynamics are for people who can't build engines. — Enzo Ferrari

The bigger you build the bonfire, the more darkness is revealed. - Terence McKenna quote

The bigger you build the bonfire, the more darkness is revealed. — Terence McKenna

Buildings quote If you are more fortunate than others, it is better to build a longer table than a taller fence.
If you are more fortunate than others, it is better to build a longer table than a taller fence.
I be off the slave ships, building pyramids, writing my own hieroglyphs - Kendrick Lamar quote

I be off the slave ships, building pyramids, writing my own hieroglyphs — Kendrick Lamar

All experience is an arch, to build upon. - Henry Adams quote

All experience is an arch, to build upon. — Henry Adams

Whatever good things we build end up building us. - Jim Rohn quote

Whatever good things we build end up building us. — Jim Rohn

Buildings quote When you build in silence, people don't know what to attack.
When you build in silence, people don't know what to attack.
Don't forget to tell your favorite people that you love them. - Shirley Temple quote

Don't forget to tell your favorite people that you love them. — Shirley Temple

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building. - Thomas Fuller quote

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building. — Thomas Fuller

Buildings quote If you don't build your dreams, someone will hire you to help build theirs.
If you don't build your dreams, someone will hire you to help build theirs.
Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy. - Brad Henry quote

Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy. — Brad Henry

The eagle may soar; beavers build dams. - Bill Vaughan quote

The eagle may soar; beavers build dams. — Bill Vaughan

Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points. - Knute Rockne quote

Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points. — Knute Rockne

Buildings quote It is easier to build up a child than it is to repair an adult.
It is easier to build up a child than it is to repair an adult.
Continuity is how you build a physique. - Frank Zane quote

Continuity is how you build a physique. — Frank Zane

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy. - Jim Rohn quote

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy. — Jim Rohn

The architecture we remember is that which never consoles or comforts us. - Peter Eisenman quote

The architecture we remember is that which never consoles or comforts us. — Peter Eisenman

Buildings quote We build too many walls and not enough bridges.
We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

What Is Design Quotes

The life of a designer is a life of fight. Fight against the ugliness. Just like a doctor fights against disease. For us, the visual disease is what we have around, and what we try to do is cure it somehow with design. — Massimo Vignelli

It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

God is with the broken-hearted. When your heart breaks, it’s a good thing – the breaking of the heart is what opens it up to the light of Allah. The dunya is designed to break your heart, to crush it. — Hamza Yusuf

Buildings quote The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the ne
The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is. — B. F. Skinner

Creating is about sharing ideas, sharing aesthetics, sharing what you believe in with other people. — Shepard Fairey

The most important thing to remember is that you can wear all the greatest clothes and all the greatest shoes, but you’ve got to have a good spirit on the inside. That’s what’s really going to make you look like you’re ready to rock the world. — Alicia Keys

Buildings quote When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills.
When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills.

Democracy needs support and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies. Democratic nations should come together in an association designed to help each other and promote what is a universal value - democracy. — Benazir Bhutto

I like ruins because what remains is not the total design, but the clarity of thought, the naked structure, the spirit of the thing. — Tadao Ando

Creative people have to believe in the value of their work. If you don’t have any belief then you can’t give anything—designing is an act of giving, and a belief in the value of the work fuels the desire to express something. It’s important to know what your values are and to take care of them. — Peter Saville

Just as typography is human speech translated into what can be read, so photography is the translation of reality into a readable image. — Herbert Bayer

Architecture And Design Quotes

One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again. — Renzo Piano

I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do. - Frank Gehry

I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do. — Frank Gehry

The Sun does not realise how wonderful it is until after a room is made. - Louis Kahn

The Sun does not realise how wonderful it is until after a room is made. — Louis Kahn

Buildings quote People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.

Nothing in this world is more simple and more cheap than making cities that provide better for people. — Jan Gehl

The room is there for the human being - not the human being for the room. - El Lissitzky

The room is there for the human being - not the human being for the room. — El Lissitzky

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

A modern building should derive its architectural significance solely from the vigour and consequence of its own organic proportions. It must be true to itself, logically transparent, and virginal of lies or trivialities. — Walter Gropius

Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity. — Renzo Piano

Cities are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and success, in city building and city design. — Jane Jacobs

Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own earth — Frank Lloyd Wright

Design And Art Quotes

He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist - Francis of Assisi

He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist — Francis of Assisi

The Jiu Jitsu I created was designed to give the weak ones a chance to face the heavy and strong. — Helio Gracie

The artist constructs a new symbol with his brush. This symbol is not a recognizable form of anything which is already finished, already made, already existing in the world - it is a symbol of a new world, which is being built upon and which exists by way of people. — El Lissitzky

For me fashion is an expression of art that is very closely related both to me and to my body. I see it as an expression of identity combined with desire, moods and a cultural setting. — Iris van Herpen

The business and design of the Royal Society is: To improve the knowledge of naturall things, and all useful Arts, Manufactures, Mechanic practices, Engines and Inventions by Experiments-(not meddling with Divinity, Metaphysics, Moralls, Politicks, Grammar, Rhetoric or Logick). — Robert Hooke

You can have an art experience in front of a Rembrandt... or in front of a piece of graphic design. — Stefan Sagmeister

The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness. — Massimo Vignelli

I never design a building before I've seen the site and met the people who will be using it. — Frank Lloyd Wright

A designer is a planner with an aesthetic sense. — Bruno Munari

The designer of today re-establishes the long-lost contact between art and the public, between living people and art as a living thing. — Bruno Munari

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More Buildings Quotes

In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt. - Alberto Giacometti quote

In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt. — Alberto Giacometti

Shawn Michaels has left the building. - Shawn Michaels quote

Shawn Michaels has left the building. — Shawn Michaels

Sports do not build character. They reveal it. - John Wooden quote

Sports do not build character. They reveal it. — John Wooden

Basketball doesn't build character it reveals it. - James Naismith quote

Basketball doesn't build character it reveals it. — James Naismith

Good luck needs no explanation. - Shirley Temple quote

Good luck needs no explanation. — Shirley Temple

The building was on fire, and it wasn’t my fault. - Jim Butcher quote

The building was on fire, and it wasn’t my fault. — Jim Butcher

A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it. - Edgar Allan Poe quote

A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it. — Edgar Allan Poe

The tallest building in the world is now in Dubai. - Sayings quote

The tallest building in the world is now in Dubai. — Sayings

I am beginning to measure myself in strength, not pounds. Sometimes in smiles. - Laurie Halse Anderson quote

I am beginning to measure myself in strength, not pounds. Sometimes in smiles. — Laurie Halse Anderson

The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl. - Dave Barry quote

The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl. — Dave Barry

Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part. - Casey Stengel quote

Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part. — Casey Stengel

Isn't it kind of silly to think that tearing someone else down builds you up? - Sean Covey quote

Isn't it kind of silly to think that tearing someone else down builds you up? — Sean Covey

Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death. - Eleanor Roosevelt quote

Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. - Kofi Annan quote

Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. — Kofi Annan

If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine. - Alan Rickman quote

If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine. — Alan Rickman

You can build a throne with bayonets, but it's difficult to sit on it. - Boris Yeltsin quote

You can build a throne with bayonets, but it's difficult to sit on it. — Boris Yeltsin

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude. - Arthur Schopenhauer quote

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude. — Arthur Schopenhauer

To love means to give, and to give means to build, while to hate is to destroy. - Anwar Sadat quote

To love means to give, and to give means to build, while to hate is to destroy. — Anwar Sadat

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. - Dale Carnegie quote

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. — Dale Carnegie

We cannot eradicate violence if we do not build strong, inclusive communities. - Hillary Clinton quote

We cannot eradicate violence if we do not build strong, inclusive communities. — Hillary Clinton

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