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Famous quotes by Architects

ArchitectsDesigners have actually long been recognized for their creative and cutting-edge layouts, however their words of wisdom can be equally as motivating. From Frank Lloyd Wright to Zaha Hadid, these quotes by designers supply understanding right into the imaginative process, the significance of design, and also the power of design. Whether you're a hopeful architect or just trying to find a little bit of motivation, these quotes by engineers will help you find the motivation to develop something stunning.
Small: Buildings should serve people, not the other way around
John Portman
"Buildings should serve people, not the other way around"
John Portman, Architect
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Small: Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles
Frank Lloyd Wright
"Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
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Small: Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can turn down some client
Philip Johnson
"Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can turn down some clients, but we've both got to say yes to someone if we want to stay in business"
Philip Johnson, Architect
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Small: In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function
Michael Graves
"In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function"
Michael Graves, Architect
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Small: Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art
Frank Lloyd Wright
"Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
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Small: All architects want to live beyond their deaths
Philip Johnson
"All architects want to live beyond their deaths"
Philip Johnson, Architect
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Small: The thing always happens that you really believe in and the belief in a thing makes it happen
Frank Lloyd Wright
"The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
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Small: Liquid architecture. Its like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make somet
"Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city"
Frank Gehry, Architect
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Small: The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization
Frank Lloyd Wright
"The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
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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
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Small: Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, hi
Frank Lloyd Wright
"Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
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Small: Good buildings come from good people, ad all problems are solved by good design
"Good buildings come from good people, ad all problems are solved by good design"
Stephen Gardiner, Architect
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Small: The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization
"The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization"
Stephen Gardiner, Architect
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Small: Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, its about experience, its about pa
Daniel Libeskind
"Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious"
Daniel Libeskind, Architect
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Small: God is in the details
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
"God is in the details"
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Architect
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Small: I dont divide architecture, landscape and gardening to me they are one
"I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one"
Luis Barragan, Architect
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Small: I believe in God, only I spell it Nature
Frank Lloyd Wright
"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
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Small: Television is chewing gum for the eyes
Frank Lloyd Wright
"Television is chewing gum for the eyes"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
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Small: Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity
Frank Lloyd Wright
"Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
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Small: TV is chewing gum for the eyes
Frank Lloyd Wright
"TV is chewing gum for the eyes"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
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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
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Small: Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world
Frank Lloyd Wright
"Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
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Small: Art for arts sake is a philosophy of the well-fed
Frank Lloyd Wright
"Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
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Small: A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government
Frank Lloyd Wright
"A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
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Small: The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he cant see at least ten year
Frank Lloyd Wright
"The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
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Small: The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the ce
"The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center"
Stephen Gardiner, Architect
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Small: The foreign press seems obsessed with the Freedom Tower, as if it was the only thing going on here. In fact, w
Daniel Libeskind
"The foreign press seems obsessed with the Freedom Tower, as if it was the only thing going on here. In fact, we're trying to keep a huge juggling act in balance, with the tower as just one of the many balls in play"
Daniel Libeskind, Architect
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Small: The home should be the treasure chest of living
"The home should be the treasure chest of living"
Le Corbusier, Architect
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Small: Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate
"Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate"
Addison Mizner, Architect
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Small: Harmony is an obscure and difficult musical science, but most difficult to those who are not acquainted with t
"Harmony is an obscure and difficult musical science, but most difficult to those who are not acquainted with the Greek language; because it is necessary to use many Greek words to which there are none corresponding in Latin"
Marcus V. Pollio, Architect
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