Best 147 quotes in «architect quotes» category

Computers allow architects to remain parental instead of being marginalized by the contractors and managers.

Doctors bury their mistakes, Architects cover them with ivy

Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.

Each new situation requires a new architecture.

Every Man is the Architect of his own Fortunes, but the Neighbours superintend the Construction.

Faber est suae quisque fortunae. Each man is the architect of his own fate.

I am an architect. I try to feel the transparency in contemporary buildings and I try to understand the transparency in Zen poetry. I just want to mix all those things.

For the best building and planting...the architect and gardener must have some knowledge of each other's business, and each must regard with feelings of kindly reverence the unknown domains of the other's higher knowledge.

I almost rented a house by an architect named Schindler, but I couldn't afford it. It was a jewel

Heaven is so far of the mind that were the mind dissolved - the site of it by architect could not again be proved.

I am increasingly an architect of self. I am free to will and choose. I can, through accepting my individuality... become more of my uniqueness, more of my potentiality.

If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect.

I'd like to be an architect. That would be cool. I like drawing.

I am the architect of rock n' roll. I have to be a fan of all its forms.

I am the innovator. I am the originator. I am the emancipator. I am the architect of rock 'n' roll!

I have had built, from my designs, over 40,000 living units, and that's more than any other architect that I know of.

I feel most strongly about Jerusalem, because architects ultimately have to address that city.

If I am not mistaken, the word "art" and "artist" did not exist during the Renaissance and before: there were simply architects, sculptors, and painters, practicing a trade.

I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

If you don't have a plan for what you want, then you will probably find yourself buying into someone else's plan and later find out that was not the direction you wanted to go. You've got to be the architect of your life.

If you focus on design, you can call yourself a designer. If you focus on the implementation of your design, you can call yourself an architect.

I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.

I have high aspirations. I want to be an architect.

If you have no intuitive sense of design, then call yourself an "information architect" and only use Helvetica.

If you're serious about being an architect, you've got to learn how to take responsibility.

If you weren’t an optimist, it would be impossible to be an architect.

I hate the celebrity architect thing. I just do my work. The press comes up with this stuff and it sticks. I hate the word starchitect. Stuff like that comes from mean-spirited, untalented journalists. It's demeaning.

I make myself a relentless architect of the possibilities of human beings.

I look at the universe and I know there's an architect.

I love paper. A nice thick pile of it and a pencil, and I'm content.

I'm suspicious of the idea of architects acting like business executives, brand managers, or purveyors of luxury goods.

I'm strong-willed. Architects are strong-willed. You get the best results with a strong client and a strong architect working together.

It wasn't an architect or a designer who invented objects, but an artisan.

Inconsistency itself breeds vitality.

I think Miss Monroe as architecture is extremely good architecture, and she's a very natural actress, and a very good one.

I pray to the architect that designed me. I'm grateful.

I remember, as a young architect, people always talked about I. M. Pei's concrete. He had a particular specification no one else knew.

It's not my duty as an architect to look at it.

I used to be an architect, so I have a series I am working on with USA Network that I created and am co-writing.

Let every man feel that he is the architect and builder of his own life, and that he proposes to make a success of it by working.

I wanted to be an architect. I used to draw houses and buildings and construct buildings on my own.

Likewise 'radical'. I'm only radical because the architectural profession has got lost. Architects are such a dull lot - and they're so convinced that they matter.

[My father] was always saying I'd end up like my grandfather. Okay. My grandfather was an architect, I'm an architect. It's true, certain characteristics are similar.

Many working families are both prisoners and architects of the time bind in which they find themselves.

Michelangelo's contemporaries thought him the greatest artist who ever lived and called him 'divine.' His reputation as sculptor, architect, painter and draughtsman has not subsequently been surpassed, and who is to say his contemporaries were wrong?

My affection for CinemaScope initially was my affection for the horizontal line as I learned it from having been apprenticed to an architect who was someone named Frank Lloyd Wright.

My work is not about "form follows function," but "form follows beauty" or, even better, "form follows feminine.

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

No architect should design buildings that import a huge amount of energy.

No architect is held responsible for the behavior of those who inhabit the structure he designed.