Architect Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Country, Style, Cuckoo Clocks

  Toronto Star Weekly 4 Mar. 1922, in William White By-line: Ernest Hemingway (1967) p. 18 See also F. Scott Fitzgerald (6.20)

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• Color is a very critical thing. I've found that architects don't like colors. Engineers too. And so somebody has to stand in. Because this is the finish of it. It is the emotional part of a structure.

  John Hench

  Emotional, Color, Structure

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• If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Architecture, Ifs, Organic Architecture

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

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• I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Principles, Building, Used

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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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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• 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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• I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Inspiration

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

  John Ruskin

  Simple, Architecture, Haughty

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.195, University of Virginia Press

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• No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Farewell, Artist, House

  Frank Lloyd Wright (2005). “Frank Lloyd Wright: An Autobiography”, p.168, Pomegranate

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• To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.

  Ai Weiwei

  Badass, Bad Ass, Criticism

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• Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Inspiration, Luxury, Giving

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• Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly. The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Inspirational, Funny, Beautiful

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

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• I think Miss Monroe as architecture is extremely good architecture, and she's a very natural actress, and a very good one.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Thinking, Architecture

  "The master architect: conversations with Frank Lloyd Wright".

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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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• It is therefore indisputable that the limbs of architecture are derived from the limbs of man.

  Michelangelo

  Badass, Bad Ass, Men

  Michelangelo Buonarroti, E. H. Ramsden (1963). “The Letters of Michelangelo”, p.129, Stanford University Press

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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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• 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 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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• Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Simplicity, Design, Comfort

  Jennifer Fandel, Frank Lloyd Wright (2005). “Frank Lloyd Wright”, The Creative Company

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• Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Life, Responsibility, Artist

  Frank Lloyd Wright, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (1992). “Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1939-1949”, Rizzoli Intl Pubns

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• Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Artist, Building, Sleeves

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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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• The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Hate, Heart, Love Life

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Nature, Inspiration, Principles

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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