Architect Quote by Cameron Sinclair Download Open image “An architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist.” — Cameron Sinclair ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Architect Architecture Art Artist Hope Life happens Optimistic Realist Stakeholder Tangible
A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then… — Cameron Sinclair Copy Share Image
The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
An architect doesn't go off with a shovel and dig his foundation and lay every brick. He's still an artist. — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
If, early on, you know how things are put together, then you can build. The architect is in charge of making - he is… — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
In Europe, architects consider themselves artists. They think they're special when they win a competition. — Helmut Jahn Copy Share Image
People ask me if I'm an artist or an architect. But I think they're the same. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
As an architect you are a builder. You are of course more than a builder. You need to be a militant, you have to… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
I'd say I never considered myself a great architect. I'm more of a creative problem solver with good taste and a soft spot for… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown. — Norman Foster Copy Share Image
A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then… — Cameron Sinclair Copy Share Image
We often discuss housing refugees, but not how you help return refugees back to their home countries. As a result, in a post-disaster or… — Cameron Sinclair Copy Share Image
Families want their child to get an education; families want safe access to healthcare; families want a roof over their head. When we silo… — Cameron Sinclair Copy Share Image
For me, I think the most exciting thing in architecture is the re-emergence of the locally-focused architect. — Cameron Sinclair Copy Share Image
If you focus on design, you can call yourself a designer. If you focus on the implementation of your design, you can call yourself… — Cameron Sinclair Copy Share Image
Forget your environmental footprint. Think about your ethical footprint. What good is it to build a zero-carbon, energy efficient complex, when the labor producing… — Cameron Sinclair Copy Share Image
Treat the world like a failed state; then you can understand the players needed to fix it. — Cameron Sinclair Copy Share Image
When your focus is social change and not financial change why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared.… — Cameron Sinclair Copy Share Image
When you as a designer design something that burdens a community with maintenance and old world technology, basically failed developed world technology, then you… — Cameron Sinclair Copy Share Image
Success will only happen with Afghans leading the charge, and it is far, far more important for Kabul to create and support a purpose-driven… — Cameron Sinclair Copy Share Image
If you're a pioneer and you come up with something that can change the world and you turn round and say 'I'm not going… — Cameron Sinclair Copy Share Image
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
Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be — Curtis W. Fentress Copy Share Image
Whether that's speaking up in your job or asking for a promotion or saying, 'I think I can do that.' Using your voice in… — Maria Shriver Copy Share Image
When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Architects mostly work for privileged people, people who have money and power, Power and money are invisible, so people hire us to visualize their… — Shigeru Ban Copy Share Image
I was the chairman of the Budget Committee and the lead architect the last time it happened in Washington, and when we did it… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
The architect is very interesting because the architect is the commander, meaning the one who commands all the workers. The architect is also the… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a mater-architect;… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
Yes, Garnett Grey was an Architect. Were a psychoanalyst to approach him from behind, tap his shoulder, and say 'Humanity,' Garrett'd spin and respond,… — Chip Kidd Copy Share Image
The challenge of today's generation of architects is the environment. — Carol Ross Barney Copy Share Image
I stand on this rostrum with a sense of deep humility and great pride - humility in the weight of those great American architects… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
