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Architect Inspirational Quotes (5698)

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True ornament is not a matter of prettifying externals. It is organic with the structure it adorns, whether a person, a building, or a park. At its best it is an emphasis of structure, a realization in graceful terms of the nature of that which is ornamented
Frank Lloyd Wright
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It is quite interesting that whilst there are tremendous theories, in the 1960s when IT was born, everybody was supposedly going to their cottage in the countryside to work in a virtual way.
Richard Rogers
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I have but one system of ethics for men and for nations - to be grateful, to be faithful to all engagements under all circumstances, to be open and generous, promoting in the long run even the interests of both
Thomas Jefferson
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Old heads as well as young may sometimes be charged with ignorance and presumption. The natural course of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
Thomas Jefferson
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Architecture is a small piece of this human equation, but for those of us who practice it, we believe in its potential to make a difference, to enlighten and to enrich the human experience, to penetrate the barriers of misunderstandin g and provide a beautiful context for life's drama.
Frank Gehry
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If you do the best thing everyday of your life, but nothing shakes you nor shakes the table for you and others, it is stale and its not worth it.
Massimo Vignelli
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And then we moved to New Jersey and I went to the Art Students League.
Donald Judd
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All the world would be Christian if they were taught the pure Gospel of Christ!.
Thomas Jefferson
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Courage you have, and the knowledge that we are all pilgrims together, wending through unknown country, home.
Giovanni Giocondo
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Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies you can't nail them to a wall.
Frank Lloyd Wright
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I had rather ask an enlargement of power from the nation, where it is found necessary, than to assume it by a construction which would make our powers boundless.
Thomas Jefferson
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I was brought up to reuse things.
Annabelle Selldorf
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I know I'm old-fashioned, but there's just something about the act of looking at books versus taking in information on a screen, which is so one-dimensional. There's a sense of ownership that you have with books, a physical connection.
Annabelle Selldorf
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All clients think that they are architects.
Annabelle Selldorf
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I'm inspired by looking at art, by looking at precedent. Looking is what you have to do if you want to make things, so you develop a critical eye.
Annabelle Selldorf
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To me, the nicest luxury would be to have a room where I could keep all my books in one place - and have space for more.
Annabelle Selldorf
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I make spaces that are calm rather than confrontational. I seek a certain kind of logic that allows you to move in space and perceive it as beautiful and rational. Clarity is a worthwhile quality.
Annabelle Selldorf
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Architecture is about aging well, about precision and authenticity. There is much more to the success of a building than what you can see. Im not suggesting that gestural architecture is always superficial, but solid reasoning has its place.
Annabelle Selldorf
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I suffer for my art and despise the witless moneyed scoundrels who praise it.
El Greco
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The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas.
Frank Lloyd Wright
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It was never shameful to learn from any teacher things that are useful to know.
Leon Battista Alberti
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I have no knowledge other than that gained through my own eyes.
Vannoccio Biringuccio
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A long life is a life well spent.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Experience having long taught me the reasonableness of mutual sacrifices of opinion among those who are to act together for any common object, and the expediency of doing what good we can when we cannot do all we would wish.
Thomas Jefferson
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