Roger Scruton Quotes

Frank Lloyd Wright... his things were beautiful but not very functional.

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

There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart.

If you're lucky, and a building succeeds, the real product has many more dimensions than you can ever imagine. You have the sun, the light, the rain, the birds, the feel.

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

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

If you're a devoted collector of design, you seek out objects you can love to live with but also live in.

Well-building hat three conditions. Commodity, firmness, and delight.

This may sound corny, but I've always liked to make things that were beautiful.

Architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. Creative work is expressed in our time as a union of technology and humanity.

Nature often lets us down when we most need her; let us turn to art.

The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.

The world is beautiful but not sayable. That's why we need art.

My weakness ... is architecture. I think of my work as ephemeral architecture, dedicated to the beauty of the female body.

You need the art in order to love the life.

Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace.

If you consider only utility, the things you build will soon be useless... nobody wants to be in it.

What do I want to express? The subject means little. The arrangement, the design, colour, shape, depth, light, space, mood, movement, balance, not one or all of these fills the bill. There is something additional, a breath that draws your breath into its breathing, a heartbeat that pounds on yours, a recognition of the oneness of all things.

I think it's ultimately inhuman to only see things for their functionality. We want things to be more than that. The desire for beauty is something that's in us, and it's not trivial.

Sexual activity is driven by the same aims and motives as reading poetry or listening to music: to escape the limitations imposed by the need for particularity in the consciousness.

Beauty captivates the flesh in order to obtain permission to pass right through to the soul. . . . When the feeling for beauty happens to be associated with the sight of some human being, the transference of love is made possible, at any rate in an illusory manner. But it is all the beauty of the world, it is universal beauty, for which we yearn.

To be full of joy when looking at an oeuvre is not a little thing.

Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST.

One can do such lovely things with so little. Subjects that are too beautiful end by appearing theatrical.

Without art there is no hope.