Modernism quotes

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The individual is losing significance; his destiny is no longer what interests us.

- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children. That is simply good politics. He will not understand what you have to say about architecture most of the time. An architect of ability should be able to tell a client what he wants. Most of the time a client never knows what he wants.

- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

It is better to be good than to be original.

- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.

- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet.

- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Youth is a circumstance you can’t do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

I’m all in favour of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let’s start with typewriters.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

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

- Frank Lloyd Wright

Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

Give me the luxuries of life and I will gladly do without the necessities.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

A doctor can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

Many wealthy people are little more than the janitors of their possessions.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

You know what charm is: A way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.

- Albert Camus

With rebellion, awareness is born.

- Albert Camus

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

- Albert Camus

To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself.

- Albert Camus

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

- Albert Camus

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide.

- Albert Camus