C.D. Wright Quotes
The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.
We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.
Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?
You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.
A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.
You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.
We should learn from the snail: it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional.
No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.
Architecture is life, or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or ever will be lived.
Simplicity and Repose are qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
The other night I was lying in bed, looking up at the stars, and I wondered, 'Where the hell is my roof?
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Our culture is so fixated on dying and going to heaven when the whole Scripture is about heaven coming to earth.
Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.
The older you get, the more you learn to see what you've been taught to see. When you're a kid, you see what's there.
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.
Art is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use.
Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
Early in life, I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change
I went for a walk last night and she asked me how long I was going to be gone. I said, 'The whole time.
When I was in school the teachers told me practice makes perfect; then they told me nobody’s perfect so I stopped practicing.
Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.
You can never really understand an individual unless you also understand the society,historical time period in which they live,personal troubles, and social issues
A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.
You know what scares me? When you have to be nice to some paranoid schizophrenic, just because she lives in your head.
People often get upset when you teach them what is in the Bible rather than what they presume is in the Bible.
You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation.
If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out.
The closer you get to the truth, the clearer becomes the beauty, and the more you will find worship welling up within you. That's why theology and worship belong together.
