Architect Quotes

479 quotes by 325 authors

An architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. — Cameron Sinclair
If an architect wants to strengthen a decrepit arch, he increases the load laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly together. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every woman is the architect of her own fortune. — Jessie Burton
Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its separate… — Walter Gropius
The job of the architect becomes more difficult in this secular age. Where once he had a god to extol, he now has humans like… — Nikki Giovanni
Every man is the architect of his own fortunes, but the neighbors superintend the construction. — George Ade
It is the task of the architect to give life a gentler structure. — Alvar Aalto
The spy boom has been a beautiful windfall for architects, construction companies, IT specialists, and above all defense contractors, enriching thousands of private companies and… — Rachel Maddow
I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects… — Thom Mayne
I am a Brazilian before I am an architect. I cannot separate the two. — Oscar Niemeyer
Thirty, 40 years ago, more than that now, even, the cook was certainly at the bottom of the social scale. And any mother would've wanted… — Jacques Pepin
If you're talking to an architect, he can look at a blank piece of paper, and once the initial design is there, the formula kicks… — Ryan Tedder
So the premise of 'The Submission' is that there's an anonymous competition to design a 9/11 memorial and it's won by an American Muslim, an… — Amy Waldman
L.A. is so much about ratings and box office; that defines everything. And here, of course it's important, but it's not part of the culture… — Dylan Walsh
Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own… — Alfred Armand Montapert
I look at the universe and I know there's an architect. — Jack Anderson
So I was shampooing at 14. But I've always thought that had I the opportunity for an education, I would have been an architect. There's… — Vidal Sassoon
I will never tire of recommending the custom, practiced by the best architects, of preparing not only drawings and sketches, but also models of wood… — Leon Battista Alberti
I worked with my dad for 15 years. I apprenticed under him and decided I wanted to become an architect. So I went to college… — Patrick Duffy

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