Architect Quotes

The artistic taste of the Catholic priests is appalling and I am most anxious to have a Catholic church in which everything is genuine and good, and not tawdry and ostentatious.
First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture.
The quiet rhythmic monotone of the wall of logs fills one with the rustic peace of a secluded nook in the woods.
There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea.
I have been wounded like this since about half past eight this morning and I will tell you how it happened.
And I realized, when I'd come in to the meetings with these corrugated metal and chain link stuff, and people would just look at me like I'd just landed from Mars. But I couldn't do anything else. That was my response to the people and the time.
Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.
For me, every day is a new thing. I approach each project with a new insecurity, almost like the first project I ever did. And I get the sweats. I go in and start working, I'm not sure where I'm going. If I knew where I was going I wouldn't do it.
Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city.
Well, I've always just - I've never really gone out looking for work. I always waited for it to sort of hit me on the head.
You've got to bumble forward into the unknown.
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.
A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.
A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.
All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.
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