Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

I call architecture frozen music.

Purpose is not necessary to make a building beautiful.

We all love musical architecture; there's no doubt about that.

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.

In the evenings the art of building gave way to that of music, which is architecture, too, though invisible.

Now architecture consists of order, which in Greek is called taxis ... Order is the balanced adjustment of the details of the work separately, and, as to the whole, the arrangement of the proportion with a view to a symmetrical result.

I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music.

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.

The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.

Form must have a content, and that content must be linked with nature.

It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

There's design, and there's art. Good design is total harmony. There's no better designer than nature - if you look at a branch or a leaf, it's perfect. It's all function. Art is different. It's about emotion. It's about suffering and beauty - but mostly suffering!

For me, poetry is always a search for order.

The problem of architecture has always been the same throughout time. Its authentic quality is reached through its proportions, and the proportions cost nothing. In fact, most of them are proportions among things, not the things themselves. Art is almost always a question of proportions.

Music is math; music is spiritual.

So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.

Architects think that beauty is a crime.

I think complexity is beautiful.

Early in my career, I tried to bring an artistic feeling to architecture. That's really the intent and impression of what I think about: context, space, shapes, and landscape.

Throughout the ages it has always been possible to point to good and bad architecture.