Architect Quote by Christopher Alexander

But then architects don't build their own houses.

— Damien Hirst

A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect.

— Philip Johnson

Great architecture is not just about buildings like the Shard or the Guggenheim - it can be a caravan, castle, boat or house.

— George Clarke

Architects have big egos. We like to think we're creating the pyramids and they're going to be around for thousands of years. And it's…

— Peter Marino

Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.

— Rem Koolhaas

Some people think architecture is about the genius sketch; I don't. Great architecture is a collaboration among a lot of people over a long…

— Joshua Prince-Ramus

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

— John Ruskin

The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired…

— Victor Hugo

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…

— Philip Johnson

The architects who benefit us most maybe those generous enough to lay aside their claims to genius in order to devote themselves to assembling…

— Alain de Botton

No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range…

— Michael Ende