Architecture Quote by Lemony Snicket

An architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist.

— Cameron Sinclair

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can…

— John Ruskin

Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.

— Ambrose Bierce

The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

An architect doesn't go off with a shovel and dig his foundation and lay every brick. He's still an artist.

— Sol LeWitt

An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it…

— Frank Gehry

Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be

— Curtis W. Fentress

If, early on, you know how things are put together, then you can build. The architect is in charge of making - he is…

— Peter Zumthor

As an architect you are a builder. You are of course more than a builder. You need to be a militant, you have to…

— Renzo Piano

It is the rare architect who does not hope in his heart to design a great building and for whom the quest is not…

— Ada Louise Huxtable

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

— Philip Johnson

If you focus on design, you can call yourself a designer. If you focus on the implementation of your design, you can call yourself…

— Cameron Sinclair