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The Blog

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MikeNovember 19, 2017

“The great thing about being an architect is you can walk into your dreams.”

~ Harold E. Wagoner November 19, 2017

"Greek architecture is the flowering of geometry."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins."

~ Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

"Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness."

~ Frank Gehry

"No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple."

~ John Ruskin

"Engineering is controlling the forces and materials of nature for the benefit of the human race."

~ Henry G. Scott

"I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music."

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"I don’t believe in morality in architecture."

~ Michael Graves

"Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more human world."

~ Andre Maurois

"Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new."

~ Helmut Jahn

"Believe you can and you’re halfway there."

~ Theodore Roosevelt

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"God is in the details."

~ Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

"Architecture should be dedicated to keeping the outside out and the inside in."

~ Leonard Baskin

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

~ Winston Churchill

"A design isn’t finished until somebody is using it."

~ Brenda Laurel

"God is in the details."

~ Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

"The great thing about being an architect is you can walk into your dreams."

~ Harold E. Wagoner

"I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies."

~ Le Corbusier

"The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen."

~ Frank Lloyd Wright

"Everything is designed. Few things are designed well."

~ Brian Reed

"Colour is fun, colour is just plain gorgeous, a gourmet meal for the eye, the window of the soul."

~ Rachel Wolf

"No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination."

~ Edward Hopper

"Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future."

~ Robert L. Peters

"Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities."

~ Frank Lloyd Wright

"The house itself is of minor importance. Its relation to the community is the thing that really counts."

~ Clarence Stein

"To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects."

~ Le Corbusier

"Yesterday’s the past, tomorrow’s the future, but today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present."

~ Bill Keane

"All architects want to live beyond their deaths."

~ Philip Johnson

"The Key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering."

~ Bruce Lee

"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."

~ Aristotle

"Design is like gravity - the force that holds it all together."

~ E A Whitney

"The shortest distance between two points is under construction."

~ Noelie Altito

"To draw is to make a shape and movement in time."

~ Stuart Davis

"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."

~ Henry David Thoreau

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up."

~ Pablo Picasso

"Good architecture lets nature in."

~ Mario Pei

"Clothes make the man, naked people have no influence in society."

~ Mark Twain

"Art is the only way to run away without leaving home."

~ Twyla Tharp

"Art? You just do it."

~ Martin Ritt

"An artist never really finishes his work; he merely abandons it."

~ Paul Valéry

"Society needs a good image of itself. That is the job of the architect."

~ Walter Gropius

"A line is a dot that went for a walk."

~ Paul Klee

"Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves."

~ Julia Morgan

"Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes; work never begun."

~ Christina Rossetti

"Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness."

~ Frank Gehry

"Architecture is frozen music."

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"In nature, light creates the colour. In the picture, colour creates the light."

~ Hans Hofmann

"Good architecture lets nature in."

~ Mario Pei

"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it."

~ Frank Zappa

"When we build, let us think that we build forever."

~ John Ruskin

"Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love."

~ Louis Kahn

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."

~ Scott Adams

"Less is more."

~ Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

"A harmonious design requires that nothing be added or taken away."

~ Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free."

~ Michaelangelo

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