Architecture Quote by Bryant H. McGill Download Open image “Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.” — Bryant H. McGill ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Architecture Disillusionment Grandeur
If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect. — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
True, there are architects so called in this country, and I have heard of one at least possessed with the idea of making architectural… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is perhaps the principal admirableness of the Gothic schools of architecture, that they receive the results of the labour of inferior minds; and… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A recurrent theme of this book is that architects, fairly low in the chain of command and needing jobs, are prone to compromise with… — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
I guess I can't be a great architect. Great architects have a recognizable style. But if every building I did were the same, it… — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion, to produce… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“An architect is a generalist, not a specialist-the conductor of a symphony, not a virtuoso who plays every instrument perfectly. As a practitioner, an… — Matthew Frederick Copy Share Image
Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
As an architect, you cannot be so arrogant as to say you are 100% sure about what you do. — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions,… — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
You reclaim your power by loving what you were once taught to hate. — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
It will feel impossible; like you are dying inside this is your soul crying out for life. It may take everything you have; every… — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
My self-esteem had been crushed through years of childhood bullying and serious abuses, which would take me decades to overcome. — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred. — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
Become empty to become complete, for it is the void that defines the form. — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
Dare to love every person, including yourself. Become the energy of love. — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even… — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
In America, educators punish those who actually think for themselves. There is only acceptance for popular opinion. — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
Hate controls everything it touches, but love sets everything it touches free. — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
The bones of my architecture are very much related to the structure, to the physical fact of how a building can stand up; it's… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around.… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof; colonades and sculptures were added because there were people in Athens… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
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When I am asked what I believe in, I say that I believe in architecture. Architecture is the mother of the arts. I like… — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
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The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality. — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
London, from the architecture to the culture to the fashion to the accents, feels like it's a special place. — G-Eazy Copy Share Image
A wiki works best where you're trying to answer a question that you can't easily pose, where there's not a natural structure that's known… — Ward Cunningham Copy Share Image
Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived. — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
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