Frank Lloyd Wright(弗兰克.劳埃德.赖特)语录

Frank Lloyd Wright（弗兰克.劳埃德.赖特）语录

作者：陈岩

"Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances."

“青春是一种品质，而不是一种情况。”

"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."

“伟大的建筑师并不是因为他用来思考的大脑，而是因为他丰富而又敏感的心。”

"A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the ago of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward."

“如果一个人在他50岁前总是酗酒，那他就是傻瓜。”

"Mechanization best serves mediocrity."

“机械化最佳地服务于平庸之材。”

"Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain."

“自然是我的上帝，我每天都在大自然中寻求灵感，我的建筑跟随着大自然的原则，就像她已经在这里表现的那样。”

“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."

“没有一座房子应该凌驾于一座山丘或是任何东西上面，它应该融入那里，属于那里，它们和谐融洽的在那里相处。”

"No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built."

“没有河流可以高过它的源头，没有人能设计出超过他自身的建筑，当他的建筑落成时，那恰好是他从人生中学到的东西。”

“Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity."

“有机建筑追求的是更高级别的舒适感，用有机的纯朴来表现。”

“Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to everyone and married to the ground."

“有机建筑的强度和轻盈就像蜘蛛编制的丝网，以当地的人文环境从阳光，土壤中生长出来，与大地结为夫妇。”

"Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral."

“把它当作是想要东西，设计鸡舍就像和设计教堂一样重视。”

"Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now."

“尊重杰作，就像杰作也尊重人，哪有如此伟大的品质，你现在就需要它。”

"Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art." “简单和舒适是任何艺术品的价值尺度。”

"Space is the breath of art."

“空间是呼吸的艺术。”

"Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you."

“研究大自然，热爱大自然，贴近大自然，它决不辜负你。”

"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."

“建筑师必须先知...先知在真正意义上来说...如果他看不到未来十年的岁月,他

就不是一名建筑师。”

"The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind."

“心是活跃的思想的一个特征。”

"The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes."

“活得越久，生命就越加美丽。”

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

“建筑是母爱的艺术，没有我们自己的建筑我们的文明就没有灵魂”。

"The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings."

“医生可以掩埋他的过失, 但建筑师只能向委托人建议让他去种植葡萄园，因为只有那样他才能远离自己的家而去再建一座属于自己的建筑。”

"The room within is the great fact about the building."

“房间包含了这座建筑的许多的事实。”

The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head fill citified ears -as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his hear. He is sidewalk happy."

“城市中机器巨大的轰鸣声充斥着每个人的耳朵，就像鸟儿的歌声，风吹树叶的声响，动物啼哭的声音，就像耳朵里第一次充满了优美的歌声那么令人愉悦。”

"The space within becomes the reality of the building."

“空间变成了建筑的实体。”

"The truth is more important than the facts."

“真理比事实更加重要。”