Architect Quote by Josip Novakovich

The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion, to produce…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“Architecture is not a business, not a career, but a crusade and a consecration to a joy that justifies the existence of the earth.”

— Ayn Rand

“I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want.”

— Andy Warhol

“We’ll start on the ruins when you come back.” “Looks like a big job.” “Those are the most important.”

— Valerie Dunsmore

“...architecture was what you had instead of landscape, a signal of loss, of imitation. Europe had it in spades...”

— Tim Winton

“It takes an architect to find oneself.”

— Zachary Koukol

“Ruins. Places built up by man, painstaking, sometimes over centuries. Layer upon layer of human experience, history, and art, represented in stone and wood…

— wildbow

“On both sides of the highway I could see the rows of little frame houses, all alike, as if there were only one architect…

— Ross Macdonald

“His love was an architect that entirely remade the reality of the chapel, transforming it into a cathedral as grand as any in the…

— Dean Koontz

“The only way to enjoy architecture is not just to look at it but to move around it and through it.”

— Kenneth Bayes

“I found when I had finished my new lecture that it was a very good house, only the architect had unfortunately omitted the stairs.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson Henry David Thoreau