Architect Quotes

479 quotes by 345 authors

Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity. — Renzo Piano
Home is where you hang your architect. — Clare Boothe Luce
As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown. — Norman Foster
I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do. — Frank Gehry
There is a danger when every building has to look spectacular; to look like it is changing the world. I don't care how a building… — David Chipperfield
The first gesture of an architect is to draw a perimeter; in other words, to separate the microclimate from the macro space outside. This in… — Mario Botta
The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
I stand on this rostrum with a sense of deep humility and great pride - humility in the weight of those great American architects of… — Douglas MacArthur
May it be my privilege to have the happiness of establishing the commonwealth on a firm and stable basis and thus enjoy the reward which… — Augustus
Let everything in creation draw you to God. Refresh your mind with some innocent recreation and needful rest, if it were only to saunter through… — Paul of the Cross
The best architects feel it to be their duty to make the path to the hole as free as possible from annoying difficulties for the… — Robert Hunter
If architects want to strengthen a decrepit arch, they increase the load that is laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly… — Viktor E. Frankl
The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff. — Jules Verne
You can't make an architect. But you can open the doors and windows toward the light as you see it. — Frank Lloyd Wright
The architects of this wickedness will find no safe harbor in this world. We will chase our enemies to the furthest corners of this Earth.… — Tom DeLay
We have already considered with disfavour the possibility of the universe having been planned by a biologist or an engineer; from the intrinsic evidence of… — James Jeans
I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as… — Diane Ackerman
The chief object of every golf architect or greenkeeper worth his salt is to imitate the beauties of nature so closely as to make his… — Alister MacKenzie
The surroundings householders crave are glorified autobiographies ghost-written by willing architects and interior designers who, like their clients, want to show off. — T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings
The world is too complicated in all parts and interconnections to be due to chance alone. I am convinced that the existence of life with… — Allan Sandage

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