Architect Quote by Barbara Hulanicki

Architects like to work in a problematic environment.

— Ma Yansong

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

— Frank Gehry

Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can turn down some clients, but we've both got to…

— Philip Johnson

Sometimes when you come from outside a discipline you pay attention to things that insiders take for granted. I admit that sometimes I feel…

— Vito Acconci

I've met architects before, and they're not living the life we see on TV.

— Casey Wilson

As an architect, you cannot be so arrogant as to say you are 100% sure about what you do.

— Renzo Piano

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

— Rafael Vinoly

If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect.

— Philip Johnson

Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.

— Toyo Ito

Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place in all this? Unfortunately we are no longer the interpreters of our culture's myths…

— Arthur Erickson

You must understand the difference between being an architect and a politician. Architecture is a profession of perseverance. You have to come through. The…

— Santiago Calatrava

I think architects are often at their best when faced with restraints.

— Bernard Tschumi