Best 147 quotes in «architect quotes» category

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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 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 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.

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

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.

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 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 designed the most buildings of any living American architect.

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

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

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

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

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

Inconsistency itself breeds vitality.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

No stream rises higher than its source

One of the reasons why architects are often attracted to philosophers, partially, has to do with making sense of the world around us as well as the making of worlds.

Question everything generally thought to be obvious.

Purses are dreamt up by artists, not architects.

Society needs a good image of itself. That is the job of the architect.

Some men go through life absolutely miserable because, despite the most enormous achievement, they just didn't do one thing-like the architect who didn't build St Paul's. I didn't quite build St Paul's, but I stood on more mountaintops than possibly I deserved.

Technology proposes itself as the architect of our intimacies.