1. Huge buildings are always made of wood and stone. Why don’t we make this wood and stone.

——Lu Xun

2. If music is flowing architecture, then buildings are solid music.

——Hegel

3. Just as architecture can be said to be solidified music, it can also be said to be a kind of spatial music.

——William Schelling

4. An outstanding philosopher said that architecture freezes music. Many people shook their heads at his statement. This is inevitable; We believe there is no better alternative to this ingenious idea, which is to call architecture silent music.

——Goethe

5. Beauty defeats weight and gravity. Both it and the will to power strive to express themselves in buildings. Architecture is a rhetoric of power.

——Nietzsche

6. Amidst the incredible ever-changing appearance of those buildings, there is still order and consistency. The trunks are always the same, but the leaves fall and grow.

——Victor Hugo's "Notre Dame de Paris"

7. All civilizations begin with theocracy and end with democracy. The law of freedom that follows unification also writes In the art of architecture.

——Victor Hugo's "Notre Dame de Paris"

8. Architectural art has always been a large book of human beings and the main form of expression of human beings in various development situations. , it can be a manifestation of force or wisdom.

——Victor Hugo's "Notre Dame de Paris"

9. People, artists, and individuals did not leave their names on these large buildings, but human beings The wisdom of the people is condensed and concentrated there, time is the architect, and the people are the masons.

——Victor Hugo's "Notre Dame de Paris"

10. Symbols need to blossom in architecture, so architectural art develops together with human thought, and it becomes The giant with thousands of heads and arms fixes the floating thoughts with symbolic meaning under an eternal, visible and elusive form.

——Victor Hugo

11. Most of the greatest buildings are the product of society rather than the product of individuals. Rather than saying that they are the creations of genius, they are They are the artistic crystallization of the toiling masses. They are the treasures of the nation. They are the accumulation of centuries and the residue left by the continuous sublimation of the talents of human society. In short, they are a kind of rock formations. The waves of each era add alluvial soil to them. Each generation has laid their own layer of earth on this monumental structure, and so do humans.

——Victor Hugo

12. Architecture is the most sincere. No matter whether it is thundering or raining outside, or how colorful the light and shadow are, it will always stand there. , there are still so many steel bars inside, and the weight of the cement has not increased or decreased.

——Zhong Bai "Crossing the Window Together"

13. For a city, the most important thing is not the architecture, but the planning.

——Ieoh Ming Pei

14. Everyone is the architect of his own destiny.

——Shalast