Architect Quotes

479 quotes by 345 authors

Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be — Curtis W. Fentress
The Berlin of the '20s formed the foundation of my future education... the Berlin of the UFA studios, of Fritz Lang, Lubitsch and Erich Pommer.… — Ken Adam
If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect. — Philip Johnson
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 would… — Philip Johnson
I studied to be an architect. And I find tremendous similarities between building a company and the design process. Businesses have to do their planning… — John Katzman
The Washingtonian said it shouldn't be built. The gallery's East Building is now considered a triumph, and members of the American Association of Architects have… — J. Carter Brown
May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty… — Ralph Thomas Walker
The poet, the painter, the sculptor, the musican, the architect, seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point, and each in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.… — Thomas Carlyle
Donâ€™t worry about being able to identify each of these plants (in your designs for clients). The world is full of botanists and horticulturists. All… — Bill Mollison
Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror, and commotion, and remorse, and endless perturbation. — Plutarch
I am increasingly an architect of self. I am free to will and choose. I can, through accepting my individuality... become more of my uniqueness,… — Carl Rogers
Metal buildings are the dream that Modern Architects had at the beginning of this century. It has finally come true, but they themselves don't realize… — David Byrne
But then architects don't build their own houses. — Damien Hirst
The world must not only be interpreted, it must be transformed. Man ceases to be the slave and tool of his environment and converts himself… — Che Guevara
Architects themselves tend to shy away from the word, preferring instead to talk about the manipulation of space. — Alain de Botton
The architect must not only understand drawing, but music. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
The Architect is just one of a series of works which examine the confrontation of innocence and experience, illustrating the complex ethics of power that… — John Scott
Heaven is so far of the mind that were the mind dissolved - the site of it by architect could not again be proved. — Emily Dickinson
In the creation of a garden, the architect invites the partnership of the Kingdom of Nature. In a beautiful garden the majesty of nature is… — Luis Barragan

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