Ambition Quote by Helmut Jahn

Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived.

— Martin Filler

Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place and it works over the generations because people…

— Frank Gehry

You must understand the difference between being an architect and a politician. Architecture is a profession of perseverance. You have to come through. The…

— Santiago Calatrava

Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.

— Kenzo Tange

Architecture is not a profession, it is a discipline.

— Raimund Abraham

The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Architecture is much more than a profession; It's a discipline.

— Odile Decq

To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects.…

— Ai Weiwei

In this branch of utopian real estate, architecture is no longer the art of designing buildings so much as the brutal skyward extrusion of…

— Rem Koolhaas

No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

— John Ruskin

I love architecture, but I learned early on that architects just don't make a lot of money.

— Shahid Khan

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

— Philip Johnson