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Frank Lloyd Wright3 quotes
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. — Frank Lloyd Wright · 1958The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines. — Frank Lloyd Wright · 1953No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other. — Frank Lloyd Wright · 1932Andy Dwyer1 quote
Windows are the eyes to the house. — Andy Dwyer · 2012Augustus Welby Pugin1 quote
The two great rules for design are these: 1st, that there should be no features about a building which are not necessary for convenience, construction or propriety; 2nd, that all ornament should consist of the essential construction of the building. The neglect of these two rules is the cause of all the bad architecture of the present time. — Augustus Welby Pugin · 1841Christopher Wren1 quote
Architecture aims at Eternity. — Christopher Wren · 1680Douglas Adams1 quote
It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression "As pretty as an airport." — Douglas Adams · 1988Ernest Dimnet1 quote
Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul. — Ernest Dimnet · 1932Friedrich von Schelling1 quote
Architecture in general is frozen music. — Friedrich von Schelling · 1803Henry Wotton1 quote
In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building hath three conditions. Commodity, firmness, and delight. — Henry Wotton · 1624Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1 quote
I call architecture frozen music. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1829King Charles III1 quote
You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that. — King Charles III · 1987Le Corbusier1 quote
A house is a machine for living in. — Le Corbusier · 1923Thomas Fuller (churchman)1 quote
Light (God's eldest daughter), is a principal beauty in a building. — Thomas Fuller (churchman) · 1642Winston Churchill1 quote
We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us. — Winston Churchill · 1943