Quotes from Edwin Lutyens

Every garden scheme should have a backbone, a central idea beautifully phrased. Every wall, path, stone and flower should have its relationship to the central idea.

And any stone being mentally handled must become endowed with such poetry and artistry as God has given you.

I advise everyone to build a house at 19. It's such good practice.

In architecture, Palladio is the game. It means hard thought all through - if it is labored, it fails.

There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.

There will never be great architects or architecture without great patrons.

There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.