Quotes by American Authors - Page 207

I learned long ago never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty and besides the pig likes it.
Cyrus Ching
There is no good arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
James Russell Lowell
We're eyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.
Dean Rusk
Some guy hit my fender the other day and I said unto him "Be fruitful and multiply." But not in those words.
Woody Allen
Insolence is not logic epithets are the arguments of malice.
Charles J. Ingersoll
Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.
Rufus Choate
Many can argue not many converse.
Louisa May Alcott
Ah to build to build! That is the noblest of all the arts.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Form ever follows function.
Louis H. Sullivan
The White House was designed by Hoban a noted Irish-American architect and I have no doubt that he believed by incorporating several features of the Dublin style he would make it more homelike for any President of Irish descent. It was a long wait but I appreciate his efforts.
John F Kennedy
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
Frank Lloyd Wright
A house is a machine for living.
Buckminster Fuller
Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - a chair in a room a room in a house a house in an environment an environment in a city plan.
Eero Saarinen
Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly but take every building to pieces and challenge every feature. Learn to distinguish the curious from the beautiful. Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind. 'Think simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms getting back to first principles.
Frank Lloyd Wright
The house does not frame the view: it projects the beholder into it.
Harwell Hamilton Harris
How can we expect our students to become bold and fearless in thought and action if we encase them in sentimental shrines feigning a culture which has long since disappeared?
Walter Gropius
No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Early in life I had to choose between arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Architecture should be dedicated to keeping the outside out and the inside in.
Leonard Baskin
Good architecture lets nature in.
Mario Pei
Develop an infallible technique and then place yourself at the mercy of inspiration.
Ralph Rapson
Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.
Mies Van Der Rohe
Society needs a good image of itself. That is the job of the architect.
Walter Gropius
The flowering of geometry.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you look on one of your contemporary 'good copies' of historical remains ask yourself the question: Not what style but in what civilization is this building? And the absurdity vulgarity anachronism and solecism of the modern structure will be revealed to you in a most startling fashion.
Louis H. Sullivan
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.
Mies Van Der Rohe
Perspective is worth 80 I.Q. points.
Alan Kay
Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Buildings should be good neighbours.
Paul Thiry
To be an architect is to possess an individual voice speaking a generally understood language of form.
Robert A. M. Stern
Architecture is a continuing dialogue between generations which creates an environment across time.
Vincent Scully
About the only person we ever heard of that wasn't spoiled by being lionized was a Jew named Daniel.
G. D. Prentice
Applause is the spur of noble minds the end and aim of weak ones.
Walter Colton
The echo of a platitude.
Ambrose Bierce
There is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
Booker T. Washington
When power narrows the area of man's concern poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence.
John F Kennedy
Poetry is the utterance of deep and heartfelt truth. The true poet is very near the oracle.
Edward Hubbell Chapin
The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making his life meaningful. And in the end the poem is not a thing we see - it is rather a light by which we may see - and what we see is life.
Robert Penn Warren
Poetry is something to make us wiser and better by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth which God has set in all men's souls.
James Russell Lowell
We all have music inside us and can learn how to get it out one way or another.
Frank Wilson
I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
Duke Ellington
Without music life is a journey through a desert.
Pat Conroy
Music is the universal language of mankind.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The best most beautiful and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.
Jonathan Edwards
When I hear music I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times and to the latest.
Henry David Thoreau
We are full of rhythms . . . our pulse our gestures our digestive tracts the lunar and seasonal cycles.
Yehudi Menuhin
Dancing is the body made poetic.
Ernst Bacon
The body says what words cannot.
Martha Graham
Drawing is the discipline by which I constantly rediscover the world. I have learned that what I have not drawn I have never really seen and that when I start drawing an ordinary thing I realize how extraordinary it is sheer miracle.
Frederick Franck
Learning to draw is really a matter of learning to see - to see correctly - and that means a good deal more than merely looking with the eye.
Kimon Nicolaides
Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.
Kahlil Gibran
Artists are nearest God. Into their souls he breathes his life and from their hands it comes in fair articulate forms to bless the world.
Josiah Gilbert Holland
Each of us is an artist capable of conceiving and creating a vision from the depths of our being.
Dorothy Fadiman
The artist has a special task and duty the task of reminding men of their humanity and the promise of their creativity.
Lewis Mumford
Art is a staple like bread or wine or a warm coat in winter. Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food.
Irving Stone
Art is much less important than life but what a poor life without it.
Robert Motherwell
Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. Christian Bovee A little praise Goes a great ways.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every day tell at least one person something you like admire or appreciate about them.
Richard Carlson
Find the good - and praise it.
Alex Haley
Down deep we really know our worth but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.
Barbara Sher