“It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.”
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“Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.”
“Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all I believe that this should be the first topic to debate in our world of today, ethics, moral.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.”
“All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!”
“Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist.”
“Poetry is not only dream and vision it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.”
“The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person and in the end they unite.”
“All real education is the architecture of the soul.”
“Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.”
“The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.”
“Architecture theory is very interesting.”
“Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.”
“Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.”
“I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.”
“The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.”
“Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.”
“Architecture and building is about how you get around the obstacles that are presented to you. That sometimes determines how successful you'll be: How good are you at going around obstacles?”
“I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see.”
“I see music as fluid architecture.”
“Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.”
“Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?”