Quotes of: Morris Keyword

You little prick. It's a whelk...it's a...it's a...dead whelk!

The Bizarre Letters of St John Morris

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

Frank Lloyd Wright

This is how you start to get respect, by offering something that you have.

Tuesdays with Morrie

Even if you can be the world's best at one thing, you'll be the world's worst at something else. Supermodels make pathetic sumo wrestlers.

Martha Beck

The taste of people with large bank accounts tends not to be on the cutting edge.

Paul Goldberger

Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper.

Philip Johnson

I always think of buildings in their settings, but so do other architects.

Philip Johnson

I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.

Philip Johnson

I love the big scale and immediate impact of posters. They're my favourite things to design.

Paula Scher

Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

Robert Staughton Lynd

The fancy term for what America has squandered in the past year and a half or so is legitimacy.

Todd Gitlin

I'm always trying to turn things upside down and see if they look any better.

Tibor Kalman

No matter what your cultural sophistication or what language you speak, everyone can understand images.

Tibor Kalman

The part an actor played on stage was once written on a separate roll of paper.

Talcott Parsons

I grew up in a small town that was absolutely a perfect embodiment of new urbanism.

Leon Krier

Lots of English people say exactly the opposite of what they mean.

Leon Krier

Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.

Martha Beck

If you can design one thing, you can design everything.

Massimo Vignelli

Urban design as a discipline barely exists in most American and Canadian cities. In Singapore, there are innovative transportation strategies at work.

Moshe Safdie

I think of the past and the future as well as the present to determine where I am, and I move on while thinking of these things.

Tadao Ando