Architect Quotes · Page 8

An architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist.

— Cameron Sinclair

Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There is no architect Can build as the Muse can; She is skilful to select Materials for her plan.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.

— Luis Barragan

I had to architect my life where I could raise my children.

— Damon Dash

Westside Gunn is the architect of the Griselda sound.

— Benny the Butcher

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

— Norman Foster

The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

I'm not a fashion architect. I don't dress in Ralph Lauren and Gucci. When I buy a suit, I buy it at…

— Peter Eisenman

Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder…

— Anonymous

Architects work in two ways. One is to respond precisely to a client's needs or demands. Another is to look at what…

— Rem Koolhaas

As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.

— Norman Foster

Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you…

— Pat Gillick

We have no sociology of architecture. Architects are unaccustomed to social analysis and mistrust it; sociologists have fatter fish to fry.

— Denise Scott Brown

“The architect, like other workers in our endeavor, is facing the inevitability of a change of profession: he [sic] will no longer…

— Tom McDonough

If it's one thing we learned from the first book, it's that you don't have to be a prizefighter, or a world-renowned…

— Marlo Thomas

If there is no idea in the drawing, there is no idea in the constructed project. That's the expression of the idea.…

— Lebbeus Woods

I'm particularly interested in the public role that all buildings play. I believe that we architects should try to go beyond our…

— Cesar Pelli

The Berlin of the '20s formed the foundation of my future education... the Berlin of the UFA studios, of Fritz Lang, Lubitsch…

— Ken Adam

We weren't meant to have futures, we were meant to marry them. We weren't meant to have politics, or careers that mattered,…

— Nora Ephron

Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more…

— Anonymous

One my favorite things is to go to the provinces of Russia and see the 18th century wood churches with the onion…

— Andre Leon Talley

Never take liquor into the bedroom. Don't stick anything in your ears. Be anything but an architect. Live in a nice country…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I stand on this rostrum with a sense of deep humility and great pride - humility in the weight of those great…

— Douglas MacArthur

I think architecture could be understood as the construction of realities, or the construction of worlds. One of the reasons why architects…

— Jimenez Lai

As an architect it is very important that you distinguish between different realities. There's the reality of the drawing and the reality…

— Raimund Abraham

Theologians and philosophers, who make God the creator of Nature and the architect of the Universe, reveal Him to us as an…

— Anatole France

Following World War II, the U.S. was the architect of the UN system, and the world financial system, and the Human Rights…

— John Burroughs

It is the task of the architect to give life a gentler structure.

— Alvar Aalto

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

— Frank Gehry

When we build, let us think that we build forever.

— John Ruskin

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

— John Feldmann

Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.

— Anonymous

If you foolishly ignore beauty, then you will soon find yourself without it.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.

— Kenzo Tange

The challenge of today's generation of architects is the environment.

— Carol Ross Barney

As an architect, you cannot be so arrogant as to say you are 100% sure about what you do.

— Renzo Piano

The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.

— Jules Verne

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

— Walter Gropius