Architect Quote by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands…

— John Ruskin

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

As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.

— Norman Foster

Man is the architect of his own FATE ....

— Melchor Lim

We may, without offending any laws of good taste, require of an architect, as we do of a novelist, that he should be not…

— John Ruskin

“One could not learn history from architecture any more than one could learn it from books. Statues, inscriptions, memorial stones, the names of streets—anything…

— George Orwell

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

To become an Architect in the right sense of the word means that a man shall give his life to it and nothing else,…

— Cass Gilbert

I don't think I would have been a good architect. Really, I have thought about this from time to time, and I might have…

— Donald E. Westlake

“I think that men have no right to profess themselves architects hastily, without having climbed from the steps of these studies and thus, nursed…

— Vitruvius

An architect, to be a true exponent of his time, must possess first, last and always the sympathy, the intuition of a poet... this…

— Louis Sullivan

The architect works in the territory of memory.

— Mario Botta