Architect Quotes

479 quotes by 341 authors

Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times. — Richard Rogers
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only… — John Ruskin
An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by… — John Ruskin
When museums are built these days, architects, directors, and trustees seem most concerned about social space: places to have parties, eat dinner, wine-and-dine donors. Sure,… — Jerry Saltz
A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call… — Walter Scott
A White House dinner is the American family assembled, from labor leaders to billionaires, actors, architects, academicians and athletes. — Hugh Sidey
Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love. — Barbra Streisand
One my favorite things is to go to the provinces of Russia and see the 18th century wood churches with the onion dome architecture. These… — Andre Leon Talley
Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea. — Yoshio Taniguchi
I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far… — Roger Waters
The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in… — Frank Lloyd Wright
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. — Harold Wilson
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age. — Frank Lloyd Wright
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization. — Frank Lloyd Wright
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. — Frank Lloyd Wright
A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart. — Frank Lloyd Wright
An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site. — Frank Lloyd Wright
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 don't… — Frank Lloyd Wright
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as… — Frank Lloyd Wright

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