Famous quotes by Architects

Small: Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral
Frank Lloyd Wright
"Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
Small: TV is chewing gum for the eyes
Frank Lloyd Wright
"TV is chewing gum for the eyes"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
Small: Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes
Frank Lloyd Wright
"Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
Small: Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities
Frank Lloyd Wright
"Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
Small: Freedom is from within
Frank Lloyd Wright
"Freedom is from within"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
Small: Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual un
Frank Lloyd Wright
"Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
Small: Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have
Frank Lloyd Wright
"Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
Small: Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies you cant nail them to a wall
Frank Lloyd Wright
"Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
Small: Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun
Frank Lloyd Wright
"Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
Small: An idea is salvation by imagination
Frank Lloyd Wright
"An idea is salvation by imagination"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
Small: An architects most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site
Frank Lloyd Wright
"An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
Small: All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable
Frank Lloyd Wright
"All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
Small: A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesnt afterward
Frank Lloyd Wright
"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, Architect
Small: A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched
Frank Lloyd Wright
"A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
Small: Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances
Frank Lloyd Wright
"Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
Small: The space within becomes the reality of the building
Frank Lloyd Wright
"The space within becomes the reality of the building"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
Small: The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope
Frank Lloyd Wright
"The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
Small: The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they sho
Frank Lloyd Wright
"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, Architect
Small: The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes
Frank Lloyd Wright
"The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
Small: The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it
Frank Lloyd Wright
"The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
Small: The architect should strive continually to simplify the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully conside
Frank Lloyd Wright
"The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
Small: Television is chewing gum for the eyes
Frank Lloyd Wright
"Television is chewing gum for the eyes"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
Small: New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent
Frank Lloyd Wright
"New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
Small: Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the days work. I follow in buil
Frank Lloyd Wright
"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, Architect
Small: Mechanization best serves mediocrity
Frank Lloyd Wright
"Mechanization best serves mediocrity"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
Small: Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsi
Frank Lloyd Wright
"Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
Small: Less is only more where more is no good
Frank Lloyd Wright
"Less is only more where more is no good"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
Small: I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own
Frank Lloyd Wright
"I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
Small: I feel coming on a strange disease - humility
Frank Lloyd Wright
"I feel coming on a strange disease - humility"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
Small: I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it
Frank Lloyd Wright
"I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect