Christopher Wren

Architecture is the purest of the plastic arts, for it does not reproduce scenes from nature and it does not borrow any literary interest by representing subjects. It stands by itself on its own ground.
- Clementina Caroline Anstruther-Thomson, 1857 - 1921

Architecture is inhabited sculpture.
- Constantin Brancusi, 1876 - 1957

In architecture the pride of man, his triumph over gravitation, his will to power, assume visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of form.
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, 1844 - 1900

Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803 - 1882

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright, 1869 - 1959

About:

Sir Christopher Wren, the English architect who planned the rebuilding of London after the Great Fire of 1666, was born at East Knoyle, Wiltshire, England on 20 Oct in 1632. In addition to designing over 50 English churches and many other buildings, he found time to lecture in astronomy, experiment in a number of other scientific fields, and was one of the founders of the Royal Society.