Edwin Lutyens quotes

Edwin Lutyens quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.”
-- Edwin Lutyens

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“A garden scheme should have a backbone - a central idea beautifully phrased.”
-- Edwin Lutyens

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“And any stone being mentally handled must become endowed with such poetry and artistry as God has given you.”
-- Edwin Lutyens

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“â€¦words have been all my life, all my life--this need is like the Spider's need who carries before her a huge Burden of Silk which she must spin out--the silk is her life, her home, her safety--her food and drink too--and if it is attacked or pulled down, why, what can she do but make more, spin afresh, design anewâ€¦.”
“Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.”

Source : In National Observer 1 July 1963
“I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.”
“True architecture exists only where man stands in the center.”

Source : Alvar Aalto, Peter Reed, Kenneth Frampton, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (1998). “Alvar Aalto: between humanism and materialism”, ABRAMS
“Tradition is a challenge to innovation..”
“The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye.”
“Musicians are the architects of heaven.”
“Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.”
“As a child I wanted to become an architect.”
“Question everything generally thought to be obvious.”

Source : François Burkhardt, Inez Franksen, Dieter Rams (1981). “Design: Dieter Rams &”

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