Architecture Quote by Frank Lloyd Wright Download Open image “A box is more a coffin for the human spirit than an inspiration.” — Frank Lloyd Wright ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Architecture Boxes Coffins Human spirit Humans Inspiration Religion Science Spirit
(P)eople’s good intentions can wind up putting us in boxes as confining as coffins. — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
It's important to do something outside the box, and maybe that'll inspire people do also do something outside the box. — Ava Max Copy Share Image
Architects are today routinely indoctrinated against the dumb box. Even advertising urges us to "think outside the box." Why? Because it is thought we… — Lebbeus Woods Copy Share Image
“Possession of the box conferred a kind of power on the wielder--which was that anyone, confronted with the hypnotic glass eye, would submissively obey… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Well, I guess I am about the livest dead man you ever saw; although I was once asked to accept a coffin. — Dan Rice Copy Share Image
The idea does not belong to the soul; it is the soul that belongs to the idea. — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
I think the human spirit is a real powerful spirit. It has no limits and it has no ends. And I hate to see… — Frank Capra Copy Share Image
But that was in the days when they expected perils to come from without, and nothing made less sense by that time than a… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
That talk of inspiration is sheer nonsense; there is no such thing. It is a mere matter of craftsmanship. — William Morris Copy Share Image
From time to time the continent shifts, and everything that isn't fastened down slides into Southern California. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
“Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.” — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
“How many understand that Nature is the essencial character of whatever is. It's something you'll find by looking not at, but in, always in.… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
The cultural influences in our country are like the floo floo bird. I am referring to the peculiar and especial bird who always flew… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Early in life, I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
“give me the luxuries of life and I will gladly do without the necessities.” — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
The bones of my architecture are very much related to the structure, to the physical fact of how a building can stand up; it's… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around.… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof; colonades and sculptures were added because there were people in Athens… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
I just think structure can make a book feel so much bigger. It's the architecture. You could use flimsy materials if you wanted to,… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
When I am asked what I believe in, I say that I believe in architecture. Architecture is the mother of the arts. I like… — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be — Curtis W. Fentress Copy Share Image
The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality. — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
London, from the architecture to the culture to the fashion to the accents, feels like it's a special place. — G-Eazy Copy Share Image
A wiki works best where you're trying to answer a question that you can't easily pose, where there's not a natural structure that's known… — Ward Cunningham Copy Share Image
Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived. — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning, transportation, politics,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
