Best 147 quotes in «architect quotes» category

All clients think that they are architects.

A museum is a place where one should lose one's head.

An architect doesn't go off with a shovel and dig his foundation and lay every brick. He's still an artist.

An architect ought to be an educated man so as to leave a more lasting remembrance in his treatises.

Architects need to restore and protect.

Architects cannot teach nature anything.

Architects have to dream, we have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well.

Architects must have a razor-sharp sense of individuality.

Architects themselves tend to shy away from the word, preferring instead to talk about the manipulation of space.

Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its separate parts. Only then will their work be imbued with the architectonic spirit . . .

As an architect, I always have mixed feelings. On the one hand, your fingers are itching. As a human being, you are happy to participate in the indolence.

A surreal and ultimately disgusting facet of the Iraq fiasco is the lag between when a fact becomes obvious and when the fiasco's architects acknowledge that fact.

Ballybunion is the course on which many golf architects should live and play on before they build golf courses.

Buildings should be good neighbours.

Architects are the new comedians.

But then architects don't build their own houses.

Character is the architect of the being.

Color is a very critical thing. I've found that architects don't like colors. Engineers too. And so somebody has to stand in. Because this is the finish of it. It is the emotional part of a structure.

Each new situation requires a new architecture.

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.

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

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

Appreciation and gratitude are a must if you choose to become the architect of increased happiness and your own fulfillment.

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

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 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.

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.

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!

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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