Architect Quotes

479 quotes by 325 authors

The art of the dramatist is very like the art of the architect. A plot has to be built up just as a house is… — Brander Matthews
And then, the Earth being small, mankind will migrate into space, and will cross the airless Saharas which separate planet from planet and sun from… — William Winwood Reade
The vocation, whether it be that of the farmer or the architect, is a function; the exercise of this function as regards the man himself… — Ananda Coomaraswamy
Everything that you've learned: 'Make a lot of money, have a nice house'. But they never teach you at school how to relate, how to… — Jacque Fresco
Architects are mostly self-centered and their buildings express their ego. Â [They are] not social buildings to make it more comfortable for people - to… — Jacque Fresco
An architect, to be a true exponent of his time, must possess first, last and always the sympathy, the intuition of a poet... this is… — Louis Sullivan
The architect who combines in his being the powers of vision, of imagination, of intellect, of sympathy with human need and the power to interpret… — Louis Sullivan
Wright's building made it socially and culturally acceptable for an architect to design a highly expressive, intensely personal museum. In this sense almost every museum… — Paul Goldberger
Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history but itâ€™s not very deep. I understand that time has… — I. M. Pei
It's not about your greatness as an architect, but your compassion — Samuel Mockbee
Everyone, rich or poor, deserves a shelter for the soul, architects should lead in procuring social and environmental change. — Samuel Mockbee
To be an architect is to possess an individual voice speaking a generally understood language of form. — Robert A. M. Stern
I'm an artist, a designer, a craftsman, interior designer, half-architect. There's no one name that fits me very well. — Dale Chihuly
My father, Robert Ernst, was teaching as an architect at the technical high school of our city. — Richard Ernst
I learn more from creative people in other disciplines than I do even from other architects because I think they have a way of looking… — Tom Kundig
The ultimate aim of education is to enable individuals to become the architects of their own education and through that process to continually reinvent themselves. — Elliot W. Eisner
You are the architect of your own life. — Henry Thomas Hamblin
I went to visit my father to tell him that I was going to go to college and become an architect - that was my… — Jake Roberts
On Church: Church wasn't designed by an architect (Technically, Jesus was a carpenter.). So why do we think of churches as buildings instead of groups… — Dillon Burroughs
In Europe, architects consider themselves artists. They think they're special when they win a competition. — Helmut Jahn

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