Architect Quotes · Page 4

Zbigniew Brzezinski, who was really one of the - whose name is impossible to pronounce - who was really one of the…

— Jill Stein

[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,…

— Paul Laffoley

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

— Brander Matthews

I like building and making things. I, perhaps, would like to try my hand at directing one day. Sometimes I fancy myself…

— Matthew James Thomas

You are the architect of your own life.

— Henry Thomas Hamblin

Architects and painters know precisely what they are about as long as they deal with material phenomena.... But when they come to…

— Carl von Clausewitz

We are the architects of our own happiness

— Gerald Causse

I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do.

— Frank Gehry

There's no question here that every effort is made to earn as much money off tobacco as possible. At the same time,…

— Rush Limbaugh

No stream rises higher than its source

— Frank Lloyd Wright

So I was shampooing at 14. But I've always thought that had I the opportunity for an education, I would have been…

— Vidal Sassoon

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

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

— Zaha Hadid

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

— Cameron Sinclair

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

— Michael Hyatt

Ultimately I'll probably end up going out with an actress again. But an architect would be cool. They need to do something…

— Douglas Booth

I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?

— Philip Johnson

Vitruvius, the great writer, architect and engineer, identified in his famous treatise on Architecture that the three values essential to any work…

— Santiago Calatrava

My father was an architect.

— Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and…

— Walter Gropius

The Washingtonian said it shouldn't be built. The gallery's East Building is now considered a triumph, and members of the American Association…

— J. Carter Brown

If you focus on design, you can call yourself a designer. If you focus on the implementation of your design, you can…

— Cameron Sinclair

A couturier must be an architect for design, a sculptor for shape, a painter for color, a musician for harmony, and a…

— Cristobal Balenciaga

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

— John Feldmann

One of the things I think about as I've evolved as an architect is, 'Where do the poetic impulses come from?'

— Antoine Predock