"A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines"
- Frank Lloyd Wright
About this Quote
This quote from Frank Lloyd Wright implies that when a physician slips up, they can conceal or bury it, however an engineer can not. An architect's errors show up for everybody to see and also can not be hidden. The only remedy for an engineer is to advise their customers to plant creeping plants or trees to cover the mistakes. This quote additionally highlights the importance of interest to detail in design, as also small mistakes can have a substantial influence on the overall layout. Wright thought that nature has the power to recover and also enhance, which by incorporating natural environments into the layout, engineers can create a harmonious as well as lasting connection in between people and also the atmosphere.
"You are the architect of your own destiny; you are the master of your own fate; you are behind the steering wheel of your own life. There are no limitations to what you can do, have, or be except the limitations you place on yourself by your own thinking"
"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 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"
"An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome"
