Quotes by Architects

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities. Frank Lloyd Wright
Life Me Will Luxuries Willingly Give Give Me Without Necessities
Modern architecture needed to be part of an evolutionary, not a revolutionary, process. I. M. Pei
Architecture Evolutionary Part Revolutionary Modern Process Needed
The connection to place, to the land, the wind, the sun, stars, the moon... it sounds romantic, but it's true - the visceral experience of motion, of moving through time on some amazing machine - a few cars touch on it, but not too many compared to motorcycles. I always felt that any motorcycle journey was special. Antoine Predock
Time Journey Motorcycle Experience Amazing Car Moon Wind Few Stars Too Visceral Machine Sun Some Touch Through True Felt Always Motion Sounds Motorcycles Any Romantic Place Moving Land Special Many Connection Compared
Space is the breath of art. Frank Lloyd Wright
Art Space Breath
The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes. Frank Lloyd Wright
Life Beautiful Live More Longer Beautiful Life Becomes
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
Life Change Arrogance Seen Humility No Reason Had Hypocritical Between Former Choose Reason Chose Early Honest
A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Design Difficult Easier Object Almost Very Famous Skyscraper Chair Why
Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward Heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith. Walter Gropius
Future Faith Day Together Architecture Will Painting Unity One Day Embrace Rise Structure Toward Conceive New Like Crystal Hands Heaven Which Us Create Workers Sculpture Let Us Million Symbol Desire
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
Life Experience Sum Sum Total Complex Statistics Total About Something More Participation Calculations Obvious Than Just Interesting Series
I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies. Le Corbusier
Faster Drawing Lies Talking Leaves Prefer Room Less
Education must lead us from the irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgment. It must lead us from chance and arbitrariness to rational clarity and intellectual order. Therefore, let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Work Education Creative Discipline Judgment Our Guide Responsible Must Clarity Rational Through Lead Students Road True Over Opinion Materials Intellectual Irresponsible Order Us Therefore Creative Work Function Let Us Chance
There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners. Antoni Gaudi
Nature Corners Must Sharp Buildings Lines Straight Therefore
He who seeks truth shall find beauty. He who seeks beauty shall find vanity. He who seeks order shall find gratification. He who seeks gratification shall be disappointed. He who considers himself the servant of his fellow beings shall find the joy of self-expression. He who seeks self-expression shall fall into the pit of arrogance. Moshe Safdie
Truth Joy Arrogance Beauty Fall Considers Find Vanity Seeks Shall He Disappointed Fellow Himself Self-Expression His Pit Order Who Beings Gratification Servant
Architecture is the art of how to waste space. Philip Johnson
Art Architecture Space How Waste
The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved. Richard Rogers
Environmental Quality Everybody Way Only Environment Involved Improve Get Going Forward
Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design. Stephen Gardiner
Good People Architecture Problems Good People Design Solved Come Buildings
Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Daniel Burnham
Will Men Magic Make Stir Blood Little Themselves Realized Plans
Every project is an opportunity to learn, to figure out problems and challenges, to invent and reinvent. David Rockwell
Challenges Opportunity Problems Invent Every Project Out Learn Figure Reinvent
Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art. Frank Lloyd Wright
Work Art Simplicity Value True Qualities True Value Repose Any Measure
The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope. Frank Lloyd Wright
Hope Tomorrow Yesterday Lies Shadow Divides Moving Ever Present
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization. Frank Lloyd Wright
Art Soul Architecture Mother Own Our Civilization Without
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. Frank Lloyd Wright
Doctor Plant Mistakes Architect Only Advise Clients His Bury Vines
Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union. Frank Lloyd Wright
Spiritual Has-Been Follows Joined Misunderstood Been Form Should Union Function
We have to know that life cannot be changed by us. It will be changed. But not by us. We can only guide the things that can cause physical change. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Life Change Cause Will Changed Guide Physical Only Know Cannot Us Things
I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me. Maya Lin
Art Me People Architecture Try Looking Way Give Surroundings Different Different Way
Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence. Daniel Burnham
Work Hope Architecture Logical Will Long Big Gone Living Aim Aim High Once High Insistence Recorded Remembering Noble Make Diagram Itself Die After Plans Asserting Thing Living Thing
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