Will Wright
Will Wright
William, Will or Bill Wright may refer to:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionGame Designer
Date of Birth20 January 1960
CityAtlanta, GA
CountryUnited States of America
money new-york artist
New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.
architecture landlord knows
I know we can't have a great architecture while it is only for the landlord.
beauty long lasts
Architecture is the frame of human existence. We must dedicate this existence more to beauty. For if poetic principle has deserted us, how long are we going to last?
cutting half painting
If the paintings are too large, cut them in half!
children block creativity
On this simple unit-system [of building blocks] ruled on the low table-top all these forms were combined by the child into imaginative patter. Design was recreation! ...The virtue of all this lay in the awakening of the childmind to rhythmic structure in Nature - giving the child a sense of innate cause-and-effect otherwise far beyond child-comprehension.
science men giving
Science can give us only the tools in the box, these mechanical miracles that it has already given us. But of what use to us are miraculous tools until we have mastered the humane, cultural use of them? We do not want to live in a world where the machine has mastered the man; we want to live in a world where man has mastered the machine.
beauty beautiful ugly
Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly.
ifs
We do not learn so much by our successes as we learn by failures - our own and others! Especially if we see the failures properly corrected.
two drawing design
The two most important tools an architect has are the eraser in the drawing room and the sledge hammer on the construction site.
falling-water architecture poet
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet.
make-out expenses accounts
All I learned from Eliel Saarinen was how to make out an expense account
mind gum television
Television is bubble-gum for the mind
taken one-day world
The scientist has marched in and taken the place of the poet. But one day somebody will find the solution to the problems of the world and remember, it will be a poet, not a scientist.
encouragement real self
Self fulfilling prophecies do exist in real life