Architect Quotes · Page 7

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

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

Architects must have a razor-sharp sense of individuality.

— Richard Neutra

Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.

— Jimmy Breslin

The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

When it comes to government policy, can we please stop using words like "architect"? Telling people what to do is not a…

— David Burge

I am an architect. I try to feel the transparency in contemporary buildings and I try to understand the transparency in Zen…

— Luis Gonzalez

If an architect wants to strengthen a decrepit arch, he increases the load laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I think my best skill as an architect is the achievement of hand-to-eye coordination. I am able to transfer a sketch into…

— Frank Gehry

Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.

— William James

Despite the persistent image of the architect as a heroic loner erecting monumental edifices through sheer force of will, the building art…

— Martin Filler

I like ruins because what remains is not the total design, but the clarity of thought, the naked structure, the spirit of…

— Tadao Ando

I think creating of any sort, whatever line you're in, is paramount - you can be an architect, you can be a…

— Ellen Greene

Manhattan, one of the most moneyed spots on the planet, also has one of the greatest concentrations of people in its skyscrapers.…

— Norman Foster

I attended a lecture by a gray-haired old man from Finland, who later I discovered was the architect Alvar Aalto. I was…

— Frank Gehry

Conversion requires a subtler mind. Architects don't like it, architects want to create their own landmark buildings so that people a few…

— Jonathan Meades

Has the painter not always gone to an art school, or at least to an established master, for instruction? And the composer,…

— Paul Engle

True, there are architects so called in this country, and I have heard of one at least possessed with the idea of…

— Henry David Thoreau

I was in Beijing a month ago working on the smoke project in collaboration with an architect there, and I was asked…

— Olafur Eliasson

The first time I had sushi, I hated it. And the second time was no different, and then, I just started loving…

— Riteish Deshmukh

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

— Jimenez Lai

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

“I think there are two types of writers, the architects and the gardeners. The architects plan everything ahead of time, like an…

— George R.R. Martin

I felt that there's an obligation when writing a piece about an urban expressway made in the 50s to acknowledge the context,…

— Sufjan Stevens

Being a lifetime wife and mother has afforded me the luxury of having multiple careers: I've been a teacher. A chauffeur. A…

— Terry McMillan

If we could sufficiently understand the order of the universe, we should find that it exceeds all the desires of the wisest…

— Gottfried Leibniz

Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Auroville (City of Dawn) is an 'experimental' township in Viluppuram district in the state of Tamil Nadu, India near Puducherry in South…

— Mirra Alfassa

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

— John Mercer Johnson

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

— Robin Sharma

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Question everything generally thought to be obvious.

— Dieter Rams

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

I don't think the people wanna see me play Clyde Johnson the architect.

— Bernie Mac

No architect should design buildings that import a huge amount of energy.

— Christiana Figueres