Architect Quotes · Page 10

Women's Day Women are the real architects of society.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

— Frank Lloyd Wright

The architect aspires to build in a city as the artist aspires to exhibit his works in a museum.

— Mario Botta

Who knows, maybe I am simply a talented architect?

— Moshe Safdie

I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build.

— Leon Krier

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change

— William S. Burroughs

My dad's an architect and my mom owned a French bakery for twelve years

— Alison Lohman

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

— George Ade

Likewise 'radical'. I'm only radical because the architectural profession has got lost. Architects are such a dull lot - and they're so…

— Cedric Price

“I am a bit obsessive of being as original as possible. I try not to repeat anything I have done before in…

— Aurelio Vazquez Duran

Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space ... On the one hand it's…

— Zaha Hadid

I am fighting this. I want to get better, I want to work again. I do believe we are architects of our…

— Emily Lloyd

The job of the architect becomes more difficult in this secular age. Where once he had a god to extol, he now…

— Nikki Giovanni

The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an architect, because when I was 12 years old I…

— Al Yankovic

For me, I think the most exciting thing in architecture is the re-emergence of the locally-focused architect.

— Cameron Sinclair

There are signs, these days, that the cultural hegemony of postmodernism is weakening in the West. When even the developers tell an…

— David Harvey

May it be my privilege to have the happiness of establishing the commonwealth on a firm and stable basis and thus enjoy…

— Augustus

I spent more than ten years working on the Neues Museum. It was a wonderful experience, an example of real collaboration between…

— David Chipperfield

There are two great classes of men: the people and the scholars, the men of science. For the former, nothing exists but…

— Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Architects feel empowered to give opinions about politics and sociology and philosophy without knowing much about it. Kind of in the same…

— Rafael Vinoly

My parents were both writers - they would type their manuscripts sitting side by side on the veranda of our house near…

— Deborah Moggach

I'm just fascinated by houses. In another life, I'd have probably trained as an architect. If I had enough money, I'd collect…

— Frances Mayes

I fantasise about what the future could be in terms of aesthetic and psychology. It's the most difficult thing to do because…

— Raf Simons

I wanted to be an artist, because it's a much better scam than being an architect.

— Peter Marino

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

— Parker Stevenson

“I am so often the architect of my own pain and the engineer of my own failures.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

Technology proposes itself as the architect of our intimacies.

— Sherry Turkle

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

— Appius Claudius Caecus

Very often the opinion of the clients must be disregarded in their own interest.

— John Mercer Johnson

Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.

— Jimmy Breslin

“never be the prisoner of your past…become a architect of your future…”

— Robin Sharma

Question everything generally thought to be obvious.

— Dieter Rams

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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

— Cecil Balmond

Since it [architecture] is music in space, as it were a frozen music.

— Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

You are the architect of the memories that others will have about you.

— Michael Hyatt

When the materials are all prepared and ready, the architects shall appear.

— Walt Whitman

We are all architects of faith, ever living in these walls of time.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“An architect knows something about everything. An engineer knows everything about one thing”

— Anonymous