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: Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art - Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright
"Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
Small: The thing always happens that you really believe in and the belief in a thing makes it happen - Frank Lloyd Wr
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
Small: The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization - F
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
Small: Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always
Frank Lloyd Wright
"Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
Small: I believe in God, only I spell it Nature - Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright
"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
Small: Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world - Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright
"Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
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
Small: A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines - Frank Lloyd Wrigh
Frank Lloyd Wright
"A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
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
Small: Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chi
Frank Lloyd Wright
"Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
Small: I pushed the process forward by saying, We should do this, this, and this right now. Please find the budget fo
"I pushed the process forward by saying, 'We should do this, this, and this right now. Please find the budget for me to find a structural engineer, a mechanical engineer, a civil engineer, so we can do the preliminary work.'"
Michael Arad, Architect
Small: Good buildings come from good people, ad all problems are solved by good design - Stephen Gardiner
"Good buildings come from good people, ad all problems are solved by good design"
Stephen Gardiner, Architect
Small: I have been wounded like this since about half past eight this morning and I will tell you how it happened - F
"I have been wounded like this since about half past eight this morning and I will tell you how it happened"
Francesco Borromini, Architect
Small: Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles - Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright
"Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
Small: Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred b
Frank Lloyd Wright
"Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
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
Small: Space is the breath of art - Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright
"Space is the breath of art"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
Small: Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you - Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright
"Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
Small: Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now -
Frank Lloyd Wright
"Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
Small: To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous t
Frank Lloyd Wright
"To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
Small: The truth is more important than the facts - Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright
"The truth is more important than the facts"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
Small: Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral - Frank Lloyd Wright
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
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
Frank Lloyd Wright
"Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
Small: God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that
Frank Lloyd Wright
"God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
Small: Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities - Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright
"Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
Small: Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind - Frank Lloyd
Frank Lloyd Wright
"Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
Small: Freedom is from within - Frank Lloyd Wright
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: 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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