Architect Quotes · Page 11

Architects must have a razor-sharp sense of individuality.

— Richard Neutra

It's not about your greatness as an architect, but your compassion

— Samuel Mockbee

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

— Ben Nicholson

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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

— Giorgetto Giugiaro

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

— James Franco

You can't make an architect. But you can open the doors and windows toward the light as you see it.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

No weapon fashioned against me will suit me, cuz am the architect of my life.

— Blaze Olamiday

With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything,…

— Arne Jacobsen

I guess I can't be a great architect. Great architects have a recognizable style. But if every building I did were the…

— Philip Johnson

Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own earth

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Being an architect is like playing piano, you learn to play to admire how well the other guys play piano.

— Santiago Calatrava

Architects and engineers are among the most fortunate of men since they build their own monuments with public consent, public approval and…

— John Prebble

If [a woman] insisted on becoming an architect, I would try to dissuade her. If then, she was still determined, I would…

— Pietro Belluschi

“I do not think that when in a hotel you have to feel “at home”, on the contrary, you have to get…

— Aurelio Vazquez Duran

Artists dismiss me as an architect, so I'm not in their box, and architects dismiss me as an artist, so I'm not…

— Frank Gehry

My father knew the charming side of my mother, and my mother thought that he was attentive and pleasant and was an…

— Christopher Durang

Pertaining to a certain order of architecture, otherwise known as Normal American. Most of the public buildings of the United States are…

— Ambrose Bierce

The art of the dramatist is very like the art of the architect. A plot has to be built up just as…

— Brander Matthews

Most comedians want to be the architect of their own embarrassment. They have horrible self-esteem issues. I would rather push myself into…

— Mike Myers

The concept of an "architect" is one of the oldest professions in the world. Whereas, some professions, such as a "lawyer", have…

— Santiago Calatrava

The prosperity of Masonry as a means of strengthening our religion and propagating true brotherly love, is one of the dearest wishes…

— William Howard Taft

Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

My husband was a hospital architect and he was working on some hospitals in Alberta, and I told him to try to…

— Jane Jacobs

The Sun does not realise how wonderful it is until after a room is made.

— Louis Kahn

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.

— Ambrose Bierce

The decisions of our past are the architects of our present.

— Dan Brown

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

— Jack Anderson

I'd never known of an architect as a young man. I think there was only one architect in Tucuman.

— Cesar Pelli

You are the architect of your personal experience.

— Shirley MacLaine

I would have loved to have been an architect - which, actually, would have been a disaster.

— Cate Blanchett

An architect does not need to spend his whole career making monuments for rich people.

— Shigeru Ban

When engineers and quantity surveyors discuss aesthetics and architects study what cranes do we are on the right road.

— Ove Arup

Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.

— Jane Jacobs

My younger brother is an architect, my son and his wife are both architects, they work for me, and so I guess…

— Carol Ross Barney

I want to do interiors, furniture. I want to do architecture, although I'm not an architect. Nor am I a trained interior…

— Lenny Kravitz

I may not be the most interesting architect, but I'm still out there and have maintained some position of integrity.

— David Chipperfield

A surreal and ultimately disgusting facet of the Iraq fiasco is the lag between when a fact becomes obvious and when the…

— George Will

The responsibility of an architect is to create a sense of order, a sense of place, a sense of relationship.

— Richard Meier