Architect famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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You are the architect of your own loneliness.
-- Adam Shankman -
I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.
-- Alexander Jackson Davis -
Faber est suae quisque fortunae. Each man is the architect of his own fate.
-- Appius Claudius Caecus -
With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change.
-- Arne Jacobsen -
I make myself a relentless architect of the possibilities of human beings.
-- Benjamin Zander -
You are the mental architect of your own destiny
-- Bob Proctor -
I wanted to be an architect. I used to draw houses and buildings and construct buildings on my own.
-- Boyd Holbrook -
Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.
-- Bryant H. McGill -
I am increasingly an architect of self. I am free to will and choose. I can, through accepting my individuality... become more of my uniqueness, more of my potentiality.
-- Carl Rogers -
I love paper. A nice thick pile of it and a pencil, and I'm content.
-- Cecil Balmond -
Likewise 'radical'. I'm only radical because the architectural profession has got lost. Architects are such a dull lot - and they're so convinced that they matter.
-- Cedric Price -
Yes, Garnett Grey was an Architect. Were a psychoanalyst to approach him from behind, tap his shoulder, and say 'Humanity,' Garrett'd spin and respond, without hesitation, 'Solvable'.
-- Chip Kidd -
In my life as an architect, I found that the single thing which inhibits young professionals, new students most severely, is their acceptance of standards that are too low.
-- Christopher Alexander -
But then architects don't build their own houses.
-- Damien Hirst -
The decisions of our past are the architects of our present.
-- Dan Brown -
Question everything generally thought to be obvious.
-- Dieter Rams -
There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.
-- Edwin Lutyens -
To create, one must first question everything.
-- Eileen Gray -
The ultimate aim of education is to enable individuals to become the architects of their own education and through that process to continually reinvent themselves.
-- Elliot W. Eisner -
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 don't call him an architect.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright -
It wasn't an architect or a designer who invented objects, but an artisan.
-- Giorgetto Giugiaro -
You members of this Conference are to be the architects of the better world. In your hands rests our future.
-- Harry S. Truman -
You are the architect of your own life.
-- Henry Thomas Hamblin -
The greatest architect and the one most needed is hope.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.
-- Igor Stravinsky -
I look at the universe and I know there's an architect.
-- Jack Anderson -
Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.
-- Jane Jacobs -
Each new situation requires a new architecture.
-- Jean Nouvel -
Every woman is the architect of her own fortune.
-- Jessie Burton -
Color is a very critical thing. I've found that architects don't like colors. Engineers too. And so somebody has to stand in. Because this is the finish of it. It is the emotional part of a structure.
-- John Hench -
Everyone is the architect of their own happiness
-- Joseph Pilates -
You know, it is life that is right and the architect who is wrong.
-- Le Corbusier -
I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build.
-- Leon Krier -
I am the innovator. I am the originator. I am the emancipator. I am the architect of rock 'n' roll!
-- Little Richard -
Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
-- Ludwig von Mises -
The architect must not only understand drawing, but music.
-- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio -
Michelangelo's contemporaries thought him the greatest artist who ever lived and called him 'divine.' His reputation as sculptor, architect, painter and draughtsman has not subsequently been surpassed, and who is to say his contemporaries were wrong?
-- Michael Ayrton -
You are the architect of the memories that others will have about you.
-- Michael Hyatt -
Who knows, maybe I am simply a talented architect?
-- Moshe Safdie -
Better to be the architect of something you can endorse than the placard waving protagonist standing in the rain.
-- Mr. Wrestling -
My affection for CinemaScope initially was my affection for the horizontal line as I learned it from having been apprenticed to an architect who was someone named Frank Lloyd Wright.
-- Nicholas Ray -
The marvelous pharmacy that was designed by nature and placed into our being by the universal architect produces most of the medicines we need.
-- Norman Cousins -
If you weren’t an optimist, it would be impossible to be an architect.
-- Norman Foster -
I am a Brazilian before I am an architect. I cannot separate the two.
-- Oscar Niemeyer -
I almost rented a house by an architect named Schindler, but I couldn't afford it. It was a jewel
-- Parker Stevenson -
I’m a passionate architect... I do not work for money
-- Peter Zumthor -
If, early on, you know how things are put together, then you can build. The architect is in charge of making - he is not an artist.
-- Peter Zumthor -
All architects want to live beyond their deaths.
-- Philip Johnson -
If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect.
-- Philip Johnson -
As an architect, I always have mixed feelings. On the one hand, your fingers are itching. As a human being, you are happy to participate in the indolence.
-- Rem Koolhaas -
The word 'celebrity' and the word 'architect' are basically incompatible.
-- Rem Koolhaas -
Architects have to dream, we have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well.
-- Renzo Piano -
When a man is not satisfied with a house where he lives, he becomes an architect
-- Renzo Piano -
Architects must have a razor-sharp sense of individuality.
-- Richard Neutra -
To be an architect is to possess an individual voice speaking a generally understood language of form.
-- Robert A. M. Stern -
We are the true architects of our lives. Only we as individuals and individuals alone, carry within us, the inner ability to make any changes to it's blue prints.
-- Robert M. Hensel -
Architects are by nature and pursuit, leaders and teachers.
-- Samuel -
It's not about your greatness as an architect, but your compassion
-- Samuel Mockbee -
Technology proposes itself as the architect of our intimacies.
-- Sherry Turkle -
Brands must become architects of community.
-- Simon Mainwaring -
Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.
-- Terry McMillan -
The fact is: You are not a manager of circumstance, you're the architect of your life's experience.
-- Tony Robbins -
So I was shampooing at 14. But I've always thought that had I the opportunity for an education, I would have been an architect. There's no question about it.
-- Vidal Sassoon -
Architecture is not about space but about time.
-- Vito Acconci -
Society needs a good image of itself. That is the job of the architect.
-- Walter Gropius -
The human backside is a dimension architects seem to have forgotten.
-- William H. Whyte -
Though there are things beyond our understanding, for the most part we are the architects of our own unhappiness.
-- Yasmina Khadra -
It's not my duty as an architect to look at it
-- Zaha Hadid -
There's only one Sabbath guitarist and he is the architect for everything, Tony Iommi.
-- Zakk Wylde -
Architects need to restore and protect.
-- Carol Ross Barney -
I used to be an architect, so I have a series I am working on with USA Network that I created and am co-writing.
-- Catherine Hardwicke -
Appreciation and gratitude are a must if you choose to become the architect of increased happiness and your own fulfillment.
-- Doc Childre -
An architect has to build the building from the inside out, not the outside in!
-- Luigi Colani -
Tell me what chair you've designed and I'll tell you what sort of architect you are.
-- Mario Bellini -
When engineers and quantity surveyors discuss aesthetics and architects study what cranes do we are on the right road.
-- Ove Arup -
[My father] was always saying I'd end up like my grandfather. Okay. My grandfather was an architect, I'm an architect. It's true, certain characteristics are similar.
-- Paul Laffoley -
We have to respond to budget concerns, we have to respond to functional and programmatic concerns of the building, and we have to respond to public engagement. That's what you sign up for when you decide to become an architect.
-- Peter Clewes -
I wanted to be an artist, because it's a much better scam than being an architect.
-- Peter Marino -
Some men go through life absolutely miserable because, despite the most enormous achievement, they just didn't do one thing-like the architect who didn't build St Paul's. I didn't quite build St Paul's, but I stood on more mountaintops than possibly I deserved.
-- Peter Thorneycroft, Baron Thorneycroft -
I have had built, from my designs, over 40,000 living units, and that's more than any other architect that I know of.
-- William Krisel -
Before I was 20, I was the leading architect of the Southwest.
-- Willis Polk -
All clients think that they are architects.
-- Annabelle Selldorf -
I remember, as a young architect, people always talked about I. M. Pei's concrete. He had a particular specification no one else knew.
-- Annabelle Selldorf -
We each build our own future. We are the architects of our own fortune.
-- Appius Claudius Caecus -
The architect who really designs for a human being has to know a great deal more than just the Five Canons of Vitruvius.
-- Richard Neutra -
As architects we have a responsibility to society
-- Richard Rogers -
Actually, if you look at the works of the great architects of our time, you can see that their most beautiful works are always their later works - Kahn, Corbusier, even Gehry.
-- Santiago Calatrava -
Ballybunion is the course on which many golf architects should live and play on before they build golf courses.
-- Tom Watson -
I pray to the architect that designed me. I'm grateful.
-- John Feldmann
