Architect Quote by Philip Johnson

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

All architects want to live beyond their deaths.

— Philip Johnson

Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can turn down some clients, but we've both got to…

— Philip Johnson

I always think of buildings in their settings, but so do other architects.

— Philip Johnson

Many of the architects I admire have given the best of themselves as they mature. I'm hoping to do the same.

— Santiago Calatrava

It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many…

— Olafur Eliasson

“Architects mostly work for privileged people, people who have money and power,” Ban said recently. “Power and money are invisible, so people hire us…

— Anonymous

I spent more than ten years working on the Neues Museum. It was a wonderful experience, an example of real collaboration between architects, conservationists,…

— David Chipperfield

Architects think that beauty is a crime.

— Ma Yansong

In the U.K., architects train for five years, and they spend one day on sound.

— Julian Treasure

“Queen Isabella III seemed to have been designed by corporate architects, the sort who put doors halfway up walls for aesthetic balance.”

— Mjke Wood

The challenge of today's generation of architects is the environment.

— Carol Ross Barney