As an architect, I try to be guided not by habit but by a conscious sense of the past-by precedent, thoughtfully considered...As an artist, I frankly…

- Robert Venturi

When circumstances defy order, order should bend or break: anomalies and uncertainties give validity to architecture.

- Robert Venturi

It was very unusual to employ prettiness as part of a building.

- Robert Venturi

Main Street is almost alright.

- Robert Venturi

Modernism is about space. Postmodernism is about communication. You should do what turns you on.

- Robert Venturi

Disharmony that comes from circumstances that are valid has tension, poignancy, quality, and beauty.

- Robert Venturi

The Italian landscape has always harmonized the vulgar and the Vitruvian: the contorni around the duomo, the portiere'S laundry across the padrone's …

- Robert Venturi