Edwin Lutyens quotes
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“There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.”
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“A garden scheme should have a backbone - a central idea beautifully phrased.”
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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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“Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.”
Source : In National Observer 1 July 1963
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“I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.”
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“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
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“The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye.”
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“Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.”
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“Question everything generally thought to be obvious.”
Source : François Burkhardt, Inez Franksen, Dieter Rams (1981). “Design: Dieter Rams &”
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