Quoted | To Build! To Build!

"Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, are merely shadows cast by outward things on stone or canvas, having in themselves no separate existence. Architecture, existing in itself, and not in seeming a something it is not, surpasses them as substance shadow."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) U.S. poet.

 

"I don't think of form as a kind of architecture. The architecture is the result of the forming. It is the kinesthetic and visual sense of position and wholeness that puts the thing into the realm of art." 

 

- Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997) American painter 

 

Who doesn't love to be creative?  I love it.  I express it through architecture and the love of creation.  I bet God has a bunch of fun too!   

Quoted | Organic

“Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.”

- Frank Lloyd Wright

“The architectural profession gave the public 50 years of modern architecture and the public's response has been 10 years of the greatest wave of historical preservation in the history of man.”

- George E. Hartman

“Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture”

- Frank Lloyd Wright

Quoted | Water

“The best thing to do with water is to use a lot of it.”

- Philip Johnson

Quoted | Dynamics...

"Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition."


- John Portman

Quoted | Architectural Elements

These are some of my favorite quotes that I have seen across the internet and from some books that I've read. This is a series where quotes about architecture becomes an interesting mystery. Welcome to QUOTED.

"A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature."

- Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) French poet, writer and art critic.

Quoted | Why?

"Why can't we have those curves and arches that express feeling in design? What is wrong with them? Why has everything got to be vertical, straight, unbending, only at right angles - and functional?"

- Charles, Prince of Wales

Quoted | A Beautiful Life

These are some of my favorite quotes that I have seen across the internet and from some books that I've read.  This is a series where quotes about architecture becomes an interesting mystery.  Welcome to QUOTED.

It's no suprise that Today's quotes are from Frank Lloyd Wright.  Enjoy.

"So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal..."

"The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life."

Quoted | Enriched Heart

These are some of my favorite quotes that I have seen across the internet and some from books that I've read.  This is a series about architecture quotes.  Welcome to QUOTED.

Here are some more quotes from my favorite architect, Frank Lloyd Wright.

"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."

"Architecture is life, or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or ever will be lived."

Quoted | Streams

"No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built."

And who said this you ask?  (Frank Lloyd Wright, no suprise)

Quoted | Belonging

"No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other."

- Frank Lloyd Wright

Since I was reading all about Frank Lloyd Wright, I felt like I should put one of his interesting quotes on my blog.  I also feel the same way Wright felt about architecture and its landscape.  The architecure should belong to it.  It shouldn't be seperate from it.  This is also shown all the time in his work.  The best example of this is a house that he designed called "Fallingwater." 

 

Quoted | Feelings

Why can't we have those curves and arches that express feeling in design? What is wrong with them? Why has everything got to be vertical, straight, unbending, only at right angles - and functional?

- Charles, Prince of Wales

Quoted | Shelters and Projects

"All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space."

- Philip Johnson

"Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture."
- Rem Koolhaas

Quoted | A Continuing Dialogue

Welcome to another great quote from famous architects.  I will start doing at least two quotes each post.  Enjoy this installment of Quoted. 

"Architecture is a continuing dialogue between generations which creates an environment across time."
- Vincent Scully

"Life is rich, always changing, always challenging, and we architects have the task of transmitting into wood, concrete, glass and steel, of transforming human aspirations into habitable and meaningful space."
- Arthur Erickson

I love architecture quotes.  Architects across the ages always have something interesting to say!

Quoted | ...a prophet...

All quotes were read by me before being put on this blog, and they will all be formally credited.  All are inspiring quotes that continue to show me what architecture is.  Welcome to Quoted. 

 

"The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect.”

Frank Lloyd Wright

Quoted | Most Useful Tools...

All quotes were read by me before being put on this blog, and they will all be formally credited.  All are inspiring quotes that continue to show me what architecture is.  Welcome to Quoted. 

"An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking ball at the site."

- Frank Lloyd Wright 1867-1959

This is a very true statement to architecture.  Frank Lloyd Wright is my favorite architect.  All of his quotes are very interesting to read.  

Quoted | The Drawer of Dreams...

All quotes were read by me before being put on this blog, and they will all be formally credited.  All are inspiring quotes that continue to show me what architecture is.  Welcome to Quoted.

"An Architect is the drawer of dreams."

- Grace McGarvie

(For some weird reason, I can't even find a Wiki page on him.)

Quoted | The Price of Success...

All quotes were read by me before being put on this blog, and they will all be formally credited.  All are inspiring quotes that continue to show me what architecture is.  Welcome to Quoted. 

"I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen." 

- Frank Lloyd Wright 1867-1959

"The most abundantly creative genius of American architecture." That is how thinkexist.com described Frank Lloyd Wright.  He was an American architect, interior designer, and writer. 

Quoted | Series Premiere

Welcome to a new "Today's ArchiPic" style series called Quoted.  It is a spin-off of Today's ArchiPic and consists of almost daily architect quotes that are legitimate.  It will also consist of usually one quote. (for the series premiere I will do three)

The following quotes are from architects all the way back to the Middle Ages and further.  They were read by me before being put on this blog, and they will all be formally credited.  All are inspiring quotes that continue to show me what architecture is.  Welcome to Quoted.

"The mother of art is architecture.  Without architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization."

Frank Lloyd Wright 1867-1959

“A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.”

Frank Lloyd Wright

"We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and a context which we cannot properly describe."

Christopher Alexander 1936-Present

Quoted

I'm starting a new series today I like to call Quoted.  It will consist of almost daily architect quotes.  A spin-off of Today's ArchiPic, the new series will be another important part of my blog.  Quoted will premiere in a couple of hours only on The Art of Architecture.  Enjoy.  “Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.”  - Le Corbusier