This collection holds 507 buildings quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Udo Kier, Frank Gehry and Rafael Vinoly.

They are ordered so that each author has a say before anyone repeats, which means the first page gives you the range of the topic rather than one writer's back catalogue.

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I'm scared of high buildings.

My buildings are all on budget.

Buildings are forms of performances.

My buildings are more famous than me.

Light is what gives joy to buildings.

Opera is too obsessed with buildings.

I try firstly to make buildings humane.

I love buildings that aren't purpose-built.

And exciting buildings are fine periodically.

I did not want to do stereotypical buildings.

Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

Buildings are always better than drawings and models.

Architecture is about public space held by buildings.

Recycling old buildings to show art is very important.

Don't say 'the White House wants.' Buildings can't want.

Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.

Every one of my buildings begins with an Italian journey.

I renovate homes and buildings and residences in Detroit.

My mother and I took over abandoned buildings to sleep in.

What the people are within, the buildings express without.

I base jumped off one of the highest buildings in the world.

My buildings are like my children, so I cannot have favorites.

I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.

New York's buildings must be cleaner and more energy-efficient.

In Manchester, you don't have proper tall buildings. Or in Munich.

I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.

The English truly understand the dynamic between buildings and land.

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.

I cannot look at modern buildings without thinking of historical ones.

There are plenty of ruined buildings in the world but no ruined stones.

I happen to love buildings, and my passion is bringing people together.

The horrific damage of 9/11 did not end when those buildings came down.

A cricket ground is a flat piece of earth with some buildings around it.

Trump is a real estate guy who sucks up to power to get buildings built.

My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness.

You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.

Ever since I was two, I've loved octopuses, monsters, abandoned buildings.

I always think of buildings in their settings, but so do other architects.

Buildings are 'humane' only when they promote peaceful human co-existence.

Often the art in New York is related to the buildings, to grandiose things.

I love the streets of Kolkata, and I admire the old architectural buildings.

I'm in love with corrugated iron buildings, especially chapels and churches.

In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.

My first buildings, when I was about 30, were rejected for aesthetic reasons.

I personally will never forget that people are more important than buildings.

In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings.

All these buildings are like mountains I would like to climb, but I am forbidden.

Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.

Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.

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