Architects Quotes

169 Architects quotes by 127 unique authors

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 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
A turning point in the public's perception of the building art came with the publication of Frank Lloyd Wright's 'An Autobiography' of 1932, a picaresque… — Martin Filler
Avant-garde architects have never been able to depend on the support of the establishment, since the customary patrons of this most conservative and slowly moving… — Martin Filler
Before World War II, Modernist architects sometimes had to resort to custom fabrication or outright fakery to achieve the machine imagery advocated by the Bauhaus… — Martin Filler
Experimental architecture by its very nature is more prone to the depredations of time and natural elements than buildings made from conventional materials through traditional… — Martin Filler
Winning the Pritzker assures a flood of work in one's seventies and eighties, jobs necessarily carried out by assistants as the demands of modern-day cultural… — Martin Filler
For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity. God keep me from ever… — Herman Melville
Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than… — Kurt Vonnegut
We are all architects of faith, ever living in these walls of time. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny. — David O. McKay
The architects who benefit us most maybe those generous enough to lay aside their claims to genius in order to devote themselves to assembling graceful… — Alain de Botton
Though there are things beyond our understanding, for the most part we are the architects of our own unhappiness. — Yasmina Khadra
When the materials are ready, the architects shall appear. — Walt Whitman
The decisions of our past are the architects of our present. — Dan Brown
A building does not have to be an important work of architecture to become a first-rate landmark. Landmarks are not created by architects. They are… — Herbert Muschamp
You can say, like, planet Earth has an existing geology, and what we do as human beings and as architects is that we try to… — Bjarke Ingels
Architects have to become designers of eco-systems. Not just designers of beautiful facades or beautiful sculptures, but systems of economy and ecology, where we channel… — Bjarke Ingels

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