Books Quote by Frank Lloyd Wright

Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

I became a fanatic of the architecture of Le Corbusier and I visited almost all his buildings and read all his books. Only later…

— Santiago Calatrava

“Le Corbusier’s unrendered concrete towers, after 27 years of Punjab sun and monsoon and sub-Himalayan winter, looked stained and diseased, and showed now as…

— V.S. Naipaul

He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be laid with…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“He went through rooms he named as he discovered them, and which he hardly had time to appreciate before he'd flung open a door…

— Chris Adrian

Let not the author eat up the man, so that he shall be all balcony and no house.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.

— Bernard Berenson

“He was a professor, a lover of stories, and he was building her a library in the same way other men might build their…

— Jennifer E. Smith

This building is like a book. Its architecture is the binding, its text is in the glass and sculpture.

— Malcolm Miller

“Picture books build readers, Mr. Leon. Two missing books from our collection is like two missing bricks from a cathedral.”

— Kristin O'Donnell Tubb

“As if that was how they built the Colosseum and the pyramids of Giza. Christ, they’d managed to build the Eiffel Tower in 1889,…

— Fredrik Backman

As regards the efficacy of the art and the theories of it, I promise and expect that in these volumes I shall undoubtedly show…

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio