Architect Quotes - Page 3

• Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Art, Architecture, Architecture And Art

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2008). “Michael Angelo and Translations”, p.29, Wildside Press LLC

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• Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Literature, Architecture, Masters

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• The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Sweet, Mistake, Home

  N.Y. Times Magazine, 4 Oct. 1953

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• The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don't design it for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We don't really care, as long as we're selling the one the customer wants.

  Michael Dell

  Success, Business, Educational

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• Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.

  Adolf Loos

  Badass, Bad Ass, Men

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• Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Falling Water, Architecture, Poet

  FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT (1953). “THE FUTURE OF ARCHITECTURE”

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• My father knew the charming side of my mother, and my mother thought that he was attentive and pleasant and was an architect, which was a respectable profession, but I don't think that they actually got to know one another deeply.

  Christopher Durang

  Mother, Father, Thinking

  "Family Survival". Interview with Arthur Holmberg, americanrepertorytheater.org.

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• All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.

  Philip Johnson

  Badass, Bad Ass, Space

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• I always try to think in curves.

  Greg Lynn

  Thinking, Curves, Trying

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• I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.

  Luis Barragan

  Gardening, Landscape, Architecture

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• But the building's identity resided in the ornament.

  Louis Sullivan

  Identity, Ornaments, Architecture

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• Home is where you hang your architect.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Badass, Home, Bad Ass

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• A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe.

  Le Corbusier

  Beautiful, New York, Design

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• Everyone used to want to be star architects. That's no longer the case.

  Shigeru Ban

  Stars, Want, Architecture

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• Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real.

  Frank Stella

  Badass, Real, Bad Ass

  Frank Stella, Bonnie Clearwater (2000). “Frank Stella at 2000”, Museum of Contemporary Art

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• Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.

  Antonio Gaudi

  Fear, Law, Support

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• Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Mind, Analysis, Synthesis

  Frank Lloyd Wright, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (1992). “Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1930-1932”, Rizzoli Intl Pubns

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• The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

  Salvador Dali

  Beauty, Art, Nouveau Riche

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• The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "My Favorite Quotations". Book Norman Vincent Peale, 1990.

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• Simplicity and Repose are qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Art

  "In the Cause of Architecture".

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• The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Life, Beauty, Beautiful

  "A Living Architecture: Frank Lloyd Wright and Taliesin Architects". Book by John Rattenbury, 2000.

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• A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Stupid, Drinking, Beer

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 22 June 1958

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• The room within is the great fact about the building.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Rooms, Facts, Building

  Frank Lloyd Wright (2008). “Modern Architecture: Being the Kahn Lectures for 1930”, p.66, Princeton University Press

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• We should have a system of economics that is structure that is organic tools. We do not have it. We are all hanging by our eyebrows from skyhooks economically, just as we are architecturally.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Should Have, Eyebrows, Tools

  Frank Lloyd Wright (1987). “Truth Against the World: Frank Lloyd Wright Speaks for an Organic Architecture”

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• A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.

  Ayn Rand

  Integrity, Men, Architecture

  "Onlogic: Speed and Vision". Book by Kas Oosterhuis, Ilona Lénárd, 2008.

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