Best 147 quotes in «architect quotes» category

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.

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 high aspirations. I want to be an architect.

I have designed the most buildings of any living American 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 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 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 pray to the architect that designed me. I'm grateful.

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.

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

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.

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?

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

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

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.

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.

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

[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.

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 architect should design buildings that import a huge amount of energy.

No stream rises higher than its source

Purses are dreamt up by artists, not architects.

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.

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.

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

Struggle is the architect of the soul.

The architect holds much knowledge, but is not a specialist. Especially with the computer and technology, the amount of knowledge an architect possesses keeps on growing.

The Alessi relationship and the Target one has broadened the role of architects in society and broadened the concept that design belongs to everyone.

The architect who really designs for a human being has to know a great deal more than just the Five Canons of Vitruvius.

The architect must not only understand drawing, but music.

Technology proposes itself as the architect of our intimacies.

Tell me what chair you've designed and I'll tell you what sort of architect you are.

The Architect is just one of a series of works which examine the confrontation of innocence and experience, illustrating the complex ethics of power that exist between reader and writer, critic and artist, the human and the divine.

The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect.

The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.

The chief object of every golf architect or greenkeeper worth his salt is to imitate the beauties of nature so closely as to make his work indistinguishable from nature itself.