Famous Quotes

"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 on Architecture

More quotes about Architecture

• "We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us."

  Winston Churchill on Architecture

• "Whatever good things we build end up building us."

  Jim Rohn on Architecture

• "I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build."

  Ayn Rand on Architecture

• "A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom."

  Ayn Rand on Architecture

• "We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it."

  John Ruskin on Architecture

More quotes by 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."

• "A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward."

• "An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site."

• "The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization."

• "Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity."