“I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.”
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“A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.”
“I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.”
Source: On becoming a person: a therapist's view of psychotherapy
“Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.”
“I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.”
Source: Conversations with Mies Van Der Rohe
“Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.”
Source: Mies van der Rohe: architecture and design in Stuttgart, Barcelona, Brno
“Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.”
“Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.”
Source: The substance of man
Source: The Stones of Venice
Source: Selections and Essays
“No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.”
Source: The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings
Source: The seven lamps of architecture
Source: The seven lamps of architecture
“Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.”
“My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.”
“Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.”
“Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.”
Source: Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings
“Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.”
“A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.”
Source: A primer for the gradual understanding of Gertrude Stein
“That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.”
Source: What Is Art?
“I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.”
Source: Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1931-1939