Best 147 quotes in «architect quotes» category

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

Architects need to restore and protect.

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 . . .

Architects are the new comedians.

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.

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

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.

But then architects don't build their own houses.

Buildings should be good neighbours.

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.

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.

Doctors bury their mistakes, Architects cover them with ivy

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

Each new situation requires a new architecture.

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.

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.

Character is the architect of the being.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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 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 have designed the most buildings of any living American 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 have high aspirations. I want to be an architect.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Inconsistency itself breeds vitality.

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