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.
The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams.
All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
You should just enjoy it, but as soon as you decide that it is going to be your career, no matter whether you want to be a doctor or an architect or anything else, you need to work 5 hours a day.
I have an expensive hobby: buying homes, redoing them, tearing them down and building them up the way they want to be built. I want to be an architect.
Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.
I always try to think in curves.
I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.
But the building's identity resided in the ornament.
Home is where you hang your architect.
Everyone used to want to be star architects. That's no longer the case.
A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe.
Simplicity and Repose are qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.
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.
A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.
The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.
The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all the truth of their habits from the remains of their monuments or from their domestic relics.
The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
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