Construction Quality Quotes

The more suits I owned, the more I realized the best besuited look a man can achieve comes from a harmony of three details: fabric, construction, and fit. If the suit fits you like a glove and it's well made, you simply feel better about everything in life when you're wearing it.

The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.

Clearly, if a building is not functionally and technically in order, then it isn't architecture either, it's just a building.

A country whose buildings are of wood, can never increase in its improvements to any considerable degree.... Whereas when buildings are of durable materials, every new edifice is an actual and permanent acquisition to the state, adding to its value as well as to its ornament.

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

When a building is as good as that one, f#*@ the art.

The most expensive part of building is the mistakes.

If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.

Good work in the building of my vessel stood me always in good stead.

Where in the world have you seen construction people who do everything on time, with good quality and at minimal prices? Just give me one country like that. A country like that doesn't exist in the world, you know. There's not one such country anywhere in the world.

If the seams are showing, there is something wrong with the performance or the construction of the piece. This idea is completely at odds with our modern visual experience, because everything today is based on montage.

The quality of the Neues Museum's construction is extraordinary even by German standards, and people can smell that quality. The concept would not have been so convincing without it.

The best are the ones built without controversy, when the owner, the architect, and the builder work together.