C. F. Lloyd 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.
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.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
The Christian faith is ultimately not only a matter of doctrine or understanding or of intellect, it is a condition of the heart.
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
The harder you work and the more prepared you are for something, you're going to be able to persevere through anything.
Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.
Art is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use.
There must be no compromise with slavery - none whatever. Nothing is gained, everything is lost, by subordinating principle to expedience.
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 will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard.
Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.
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.
Always respond to every impulse to pray. The impulse to pray may come when you are reading or when you are battling with a text. I would make an absolute law of this: always obey such an impulse.
If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.
Sea Hunt was the first time anyone tackled a show that took place underwater. The stories were sort of exciting for kids, like cops and robbers underwater.
An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.
Have you realized that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself?
If you look at your past and are depressed it means that you are listening to the devil.
Work hard at everything you do. Never give up. Never quit. Many people have talents but without the hard work you won't get anywhere.
The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect.
Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own earth
I never design a building before I've seen the site and met the people who will be using it.
The next few years are going to be horrendous in the UK. The last thing we need is a Somali pirate-style raid on the few wealth creators who still dare to navigate Britain's gale-force waters.
Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.
The glory of the gospel is that when the church is absolutely different from the world, she invariably attracts it.
There is nothing more foolish or self-defeating than for a Christian to say that he is not interested in doctrines.