Architect Quotes · Page 9

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

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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

— Anonymous

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

— John Feldmann

“Never be a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.”

— Robin S. Sharma

My father, Robert Ernst, was teaching as an architect at the technical high school of our city.

— Richard Ernst

Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be

— Curtis W. Fentress

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

— Mario Bellini

The thing is, I hate the celebrity architect thing. I just do my work.

— Frank Gehry

Here in Barcelona, it's the architects who built the buildings that made the city iconic who are the objects of admiration -…

— Julie Burchill

My special situation was that I was the son and grandson of architects. And so I saw building. We were building the…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer…

— Diane Ackerman

She said she married an architect, who kept her warm and safe and dry. She would like to say she loved the…

— Dan Fogelberg

If an architect's ego is very small, he is done for it; if it is vast then he might make some very…

— Paolo Soleri

Architects love to rethink a project - that's what we do. If something is successful, like a house or a kettle, in…

— Michael Graves

The architect, Peter Arens who is the monstrous carbuncle architect, not merely did his design which had won a public competition never…

— Anthony Holden

I still want to be an architect and score films and do other things. I always said as long as I've still…

— DJ Quik

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

God created music as a common language for all men. It inspires the poets, the composers and the architects. It lures us…

— Khalil Gibran

“A space planner provides spaces for playing basketball, performing laboratory experiments, manufacturing widgets, or staging theatrical productions; an architect imbues the experience…

— Anonymous

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

— Augustus

In a way, the whole notion of a blueprint of a building is not that different from a script for a movie.…

— Susanne Bier

Some architects think of clients only as sources of work and income but most good architecture is in fact the result of…

— Roger K. Lewis

This great Mughal Emperor [Akbar] was illiterate; he could neither read nor write. However, that had not stopped Akbar from cultivating the…

— Indu Sundaresan

The notion - and I tell you this one even worries me that it extends into New Urbanism - the notion of…

— Jane Jacobs

In fact, all kinds of men, and not merely architects, can recognize a good piece of work.

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

I am a Brazilian before I am an architect. I cannot separate the two.

— Oscar Niemeyer

“Architect without Pencil is like Rock-star without Guitar.”

— Vinayak Hanchate

I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.

— Alexander Jackson Davis

“Love of ruins for an architect, he claimed, was quite natural, at least after a long career.”

— Josip Novakovich

Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.

— Anonymous

An architect has to build the building from the inside out, not the outside in!

— Luigi Colani

When a man is not satisfied with a house where he lives, he becomes an architect

— Renzo Piano

When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers.

— Anonymous

There was no single architect of the Affordable Care Act.

— Neera Tanden

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

— Frank Gehry

I am going, if I can, to be an architect, and I am too old already, and there is no time to…

— William Morris

The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.

— Benjamin Haydon

“Never be a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of you future. You will never be the same.”

— Robin Sharma

It is therefore indisputable that the limbs of architecture are derived from the limbs of man.

— Michelangelo

There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.

— Edwin Lutyens