Architect Quotes:

You are the architect of your own loneliness.

- Adam Shankman

source: Henry Thomas Hamblin (2009). “The Power of Thought”, p.4, The Floating Press

topic: Loneliness, Architect

I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.

- Alexander Jackson Davis

topic: Architecture, Building, Architect

Faber est suae quisque fortunae. Each man is the architect of his own fate.

- Appius Claudius Caecus

topic: Fate, Men, Architect, Fate Destiny

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

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Building, Architect, Used

I make myself a relentless architect of the possibilities of human beings.

- Benjamin Zander

topic: Architect, Possibility, Relentless

You are the mental architect of your own destiny

- Bob Proctor

topic: Destiny, Architect

Musicians are the architects of heaven.

- Bobby McFerrin

topic: Heaven, Musician, Architect

I wanted to be an architect. I used to draw houses and buildings and construct buildings on my own.

- Boyd Holbrook

source: "Boyd Holbrook On Film". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 30, 2014.

topic: House, Building, Architect

Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.

- Bryant H. McGill

topic: Literature, Architect, Masters, Modern Architecture, Grandeur

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

topic: Self, Individuality, Architect

I love paper. A nice thick pile of it and a pencil, and I'm content.

- Cecil Balmond

topic: Nice, Paper, Architect

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

topic: Dull, Matter, Architect

Women are the architects of society

- Cher

topic: Architect

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

topic: Humanity, Architect, Grey

As a child I wanted to become an architect.

- Chris Hughes

topic: Children, Architect, Wanted

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

source: "Patterns of Software: Tales from the Software Community". Book by Christopher Alexander (Foreword), 1996.

topic: Acceptance, Students, Architect

But then architects don't build their own houses.

- Damien Hirst

topic: House, Architecture, Architect

The decisions of our past are the architects of our present.

- Dan Brown

topic: Past, Decision, Architect

Question everything generally thought to be obvious.

- Dieter Rams

source: François Burkhardt, Inez Franksen, Dieter Rams (1981). “Design: Dieter Rams &”

topic: Architect, Obvious

There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.

- Edwin Lutyens

topic: Design, Architecture, Architect, Patronage

To create, one must first question everything.

- Eileen Gray

topic: Firsts, Architect, Creativeness

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

topic: Individual, Architect, Process, Aim Of Education

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

topic: Artist, Years, Architect

It wasn't an architect or a designer who invented objects, but an artisan.

- Giorgetto Giugiaro

topic: Design, Architect, Artisans

You members of this Conference are to be the architects of the better world. In your hands rests our future.

- Harry S. Truman

topic: Hands, World, Architect

You are the architect of your own life.

- Henry Thomas Hamblin

topic: Architect

The greatest architect and the one most needed is hope.

- Henry Ward Beecher

topic: Optimism, Architect, Needed

A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.

- Igor Stravinsky

topic: Inspiration, House, Architect

I look at the universe and I know there's an architect.

- Jack Anderson

topic: God, Looks, Architect

Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.

- Jane Jacobs

source: Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.238, Vintage

topic: Cities, Architect, Capability, Providing

Each new situation requires a new architecture.

- Jean Nouvel

topic: Architecture, Architect, Situation, Modern Architecture, Architecture And Design

Who is the architect? I am the architect.

- Jeff Rich

topic: Architect

Every woman is the architect of her own fortune.

- Jessie Burton

source: Jessie Burton (2014). “The Miniaturist”, p.148, Pan Macmillan

topic: Architect, Fortune

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

topic: Emotional, Color, Architect

Everyone is the architect of their own happiness

- Joseph Pilates

topic: Architect

Inconsistency itself breeds vitality.

- Kenzo Tange

topic: Vitality, Architect, Inconsistency

You know, it is life that is right and the architect who is wrong.

- Le Corbusier

source: "Lived-in Architecture: Le Corbusier's Pessac Revisited". Book by Philippe Boudon, trans. Gerald Onn, 1969.

topic: Architect

I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build.

- Leon Krier

source: Leon Krier (2011). “The Architecture of Community”, Island Press

topic: Architecture, Architect

I am the innovator. I am the originator. I am the emancipator. I am the architect of rock 'n' roll!

- Little Richard

topic: Architect

Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.

- Ludwig von Mises

topic: Architect, Fortune, Capitalism, Character Building, Character Education

The architect must not only understand drawing, but music.

- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

topic: Drawing, Architecture, Architect

Architects cannot teach nature anything.

- Mark Twain

topic: Architecture, Architect, Teach

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

topic: Artist, Reputation, Architect

You are the architect of the memories that others will have about you.

- Michael Hyatt

topic: Memories, Architect

Who knows, maybe I am simply a talented architect?

- Moshe Safdie

topic: Architect

Better to be the architect of something you can endorse than the placard waving protagonist standing in the rain.

- Mr. Wrestling

topic: Rain, Politics, Architect, Standing In The Rain, Protagonists

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

topic: Lines, Affection, Architect, Horizontal Lines

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

topic: Medicine, Needs, Architect, Pharmacy

I am a Brazilian before I am an architect. I cannot separate the two.

- Oscar Niemeyer

topic: Two, Architect

I almost rented a house by an architect named Schindler, but I couldn't afford it. It was a jewel

- Parker Stevenson

topic: Jewels, House, Architect, Schindler

Buildings should be good neighbours.

- Paul Thiry

topic: Building, Architect, Should

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

topic: Artist, Together, Architect

All architects want to live beyond their deaths.

- Philip Johnson

topic: Death, Want, Architect, Modern Architecture

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

- Philip Johnson

source: "Philip Johnson: What I've Learned". Interview with John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. February 1999.

topic: Arrogant, Architect, Modest

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

topic: Hands, Feelings, Architect, Itching, Mixed Feelings

The word 'celebrity' and the word 'architect' are basically incompatible.

- Rem Koolhaas

topic: Architect

Architects have to dream, we have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well.

- Renzo Piano

topic: Dream, Architect, Wells

When a man is not satisfied with a house where he lives, he becomes an architect

- Renzo Piano

topic: Men, House, Architect

Architects must have a razor-sharp sense of individuality.

- Richard Neutra

topic: Individuality, Razors, Architect

To be an architect is to possess an individual voice speaking a generally understood language of form.

- Robert A. M. Stern

source: Robert A. M. Stern (1986). “Buildings and projects, 1981-1985”, Rizzoli International Publications

topic: Voice, Language, Architect

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

topic: Life, Blue, Architect

Architects are by nature and pursuit, leaders and teachers.

- Samuel

topic: Teacher, Leader, Architect

It's not about your greatness as an architect, but your compassion

- Samuel Mockbee

topic: Compassion, Greatness, Architect

Technology proposes itself as the architect of our intimacies.

- Sherry Turkle

source: Sherry Turkle (2011). “Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other”, p.20, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Technology, Intimacy, Architect

Architects are the new comedians.

- Simon Doonan

topic: Comedian, Architect

Brands must become architects of community.

- Simon Mainwaring

topic: Community, Architect, Brands

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

- Terry McMillan

topic: Life, Architect

The fact is: You are not a manager of circumstance, you're the architect of your life's experience.

- Tony Robbins

topic: Inspirational, Facts, Architect

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

topic: Opportunity, Architect

Architecture is not about space but about time.

- Vito Acconci

source: Interview with Marcus Fairs, www.dezeen.com. October 13, 2012.

topic: Space, Architecture, Architect

Society needs a good image of itself. That is the job of the architect.

- Walter Gropius

topic: Jobs, Needs, Architect

The human backside is a dimension architects seem to have forgotten.

- William H. Whyte

topic: Dimensions, Forgotten, Architect, Backsides

Though there are things beyond our understanding, for the most part we are the architects of our own unhappiness.

- Yasmina Khadra

topic: Understanding, Unhappiness, Architect

There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one?

- Zaha Hadid

source: "Master builder". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2003.

topic: Sticks, Degrees, Architect

It's not my duty as an architect to look at it

- Zaha Hadid

topic: Looks, Architecture, Architect

There's only one Sabbath guitarist and he is the architect for everything, Tony Iommi.

- Zakk Wylde

topic: Guitar, Architect, Sabbath

Architects need to restore and protect.

- Carol Ross Barney

source: Source: www.chicagotribune.com

topic: Needs, Architect, Protect

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

source: Source: blogs.indiewire.com

topic: Writing, Usa, Architect

Appreciation and gratitude are a must if you choose to become the architect of increased happiness and your own fulfillment.

- Doc Childre

topic: Gratitude, Appreciation, Architect

We are the architects of our own happiness

- Gerald Causse

topic: Architect

An architect has to build the building from the inside out, not the outside in!

- Luigi Colani

topic: Building, Architect

Tell me what chair you've designed and I'll tell you what sort of architect you are.

- Mario Bellini

topic: Architect, Chairs

When engineers and quantity surveyors discuss aesthetics and architects study what cranes do we are on the right road.

- Ove Arup

topic: Study, Architect, Cranes, Surveyors, Civil Engineer

[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

topic: Father, Architect, Characteristics

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

topic: Engagement, Building, Architect

I wanted to be an artist, because it's a much better scam than being an architect.

- Peter Marino

topic: Artist, Architect

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

topic: Men, Miserable, Architect

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

topic: Design, Architect, Units

Before I was 20, I was the leading architect of the Southwest.

- Willis Polk

topic: Architect

All clients think that they are architects.

- Annabelle Selldorf

source: "Interview with Architect Annabelle Selldorf". Interview with Philip Nobel, www.architecturaldigest.com. March 31, 2013.

topic: Thinking, Clients, Architect, Annabelle

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

source: "Interview with Architect Annabelle Selldorf". Interview with Philip Nobel, www.architecturaldigest.com. March 31, 2013.

topic: People, Remember, Architect, Specifications

We each build our own future. We are the architects of our own fortune.

- Appius Claudius Caecus

topic: Architect, Fortune

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

topic: Design, Architect, Canon

As architects we have a responsibility to society

- Richard Rogers

topic: Responsibility, Architect

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

source: Source: www.archdaily.com

topic: Beautiful, Looks, Architect

Struggle is the architect of the soul.

- James Cook

topic: Struggle, Soul, Architect

Ballybunion is the course on which many golf architects should live and play on before they build golf courses.

- Tom Watson

topic: Golf, Play, Architect

I pray to the architect that designed me. I'm grateful.

- John Feldmann

source: Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

topic: Grateful, Praying, Architect

Abusers are engineers and architects and janitors and police officers and any other walk of life. There's not a job or profession that is exempt.

- Kim Gandy

topic: Jobs, Police, Architect, Abusers, Janitor

Those who say only artists and architects can create are the ones who are elitist.

- Frank Gehry

source: Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. March 1, 2011.

topic: Artist, Architect, Elitist

Artists dismiss me as an architect, so I'm not in their box, and architects dismiss me as an artist, so I'm not in their box.

- Frank Gehry

source: Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. March 1, 2011.

topic: Artist, Architect, Boxes

The thing is, I hate the celebrity architect thing. I just do my work.

- Frank Gehry

source: Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. March 1, 2011.

topic: Hate, I Hate, Architect

Computers allow architects to remain parental instead of being marginalized by the contractors and managers.

- Frank Gehry

source: Source: www.playboy.com

topic: Computer, Architect, Parental

Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

topic: Artist, Building, Architect

I think Miss Monroe as architecture is extremely good architecture, and she's a very natural actress, and a very good one.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

source: "The master architect: conversations with Frank Lloyd Wright".

topic: Thinking, Architecture, Architect

Some are born to invent, others to embellish; but the gilder attracts more attention than the architect.

- Luc de Clapiers

source: Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

topic: Attention, Architect, Born

No architect is held responsible for the behavior of those who inhabit the structure he designed.

- Ludwig von Mises

topic: Behavior, Architect, Responsible

I’m a passionate architect... I do not work for money

- Peter Zumthor

topic: Passionate, Architect

If I am not mistaken, the word "art" and "artist" did not exist during the Renaissance and before: there were simply architects, sculptors, and painters, practicing a trade.

- M. C. Escher

topic: Art, Renaissance, Architect

I hate the celebrity architect thing. I just do my work. The press comes up with this stuff and it sticks. I hate the word starchitect. Stuff like that comes from mean-spirited, untalented journalists. It's demeaning.

- Philip Johnson

source: Source: business.highbeam.com

topic: Hate, Architect, Journalist, Demeaning

An architect ought to be an educated man so as to leave a more lasting remembrance in his treatises.

- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

source: "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter I, Section 4,

topic: Men, Remembrance, Architect, Educated Man

For the best building and planting...the architect and gardener must have some knowledge of each other's business, and each must regard with feelings of kindly reverence the unknown domains of the other's higher knowledge.

- Gertrude Jekyll

topic: Feelings, Building, Architect

We live in a world of creative beauty - the grand architect of the universe. God has planted something for us - a playground to play in if we choose to look at it that way and understand it. So, this time for me, is really a time to create.

- Giancarlo Esposito

source: Source: www.ebony.com

topic: Creative, World, Architect

Steve Bannon is the architect of the entire blitzkrieg that we're seeing against American values and the American people.

- Van Jones

source: Source: pen.org

topic: People, Architect, American Values

Let every man feel that he is the architect and builder of his own life, and that he proposes to make a success of it by working.

- Heber J. Grant

topic: Men, Architect, Feels

The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.

- Jules Verne

source: Jules Verne (1998). “Journey to the Centre of the Earth”, p.146, Oxford University Press, USA

topic: Science, Stuff, Architect

When the materials are all prepared and ready, the architects shall appear.

- Walt Whitman

source: "Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856".

topic: Architect, Ready, Materials

We are all architects of faith, ever living in these walls of time.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Wall, Architect

I'd like to be an architect. That would be cool. I like drawing.

- Justin Bieber

source: "Justin Bieber Talks About His First Kiss". Interview with Dan Koday, www.seventeen.com. June 8, 2010.

topic: Drawing, Would Be, Architect

What if you're Gaudi and you know you're the best architect and everyone is saying that you're saying you're the best architect the wrong way?

- Kanye West

topic: What If, Way, Architect, Gaudi

Form follows function, as the architects say. With words and pictures, you can do just about anything.

- Bill Watterson

source: Source: mentalfloss.com

topic: Architect, Form, Function

The Democrats are the architects of the mess we're in that we are trying to get out of, that we're trying extricate ourselves from.

- Rush Limbaugh

source: Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

topic: Trying, Architect, Democrat

Until we become the architects of a society that is truly free and ecological, it will always seem that when the human brain is not adaptive, it is more often destructive than creative.

- Murray Bookchin

topic: Creative, Brain, Architect, Adaptive

Heaven is so far of the mind that were the mind dissolved - the site of it by architect could not again be proved.

- Emily Dickinson

source: Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.632, Delphi Classics

topic: Heaven, Mind, Architect

Purses are dreamt up by artists, not architects.

- Lauren Conrad

topic: Artist, Purses, Architect

I have high aspirations. I want to be an architect.

- James Franco

source: "James Franco: The Method Of 'Milk'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. March 27, 2009.

topic: Want, Architect, Aspiration

If you weren’t an optimist, it would be impossible to be an architect.

- Norman Foster

topic: Would Be, Impossible, Architect

You are the architect of your personal experience.

- Shirley MacLaine

topic: Architect, Personal Experiences

My work is not about "form follows function," but "form follows beauty" or, even better, "form follows feminine."

- Oscar Niemeyer

source: "'Form Follows Feminine': Niemeyer, 90, Is Still Going Strong". Tracy Metz, Architectural Record (p. 35), December 1997.

topic: Feminine Beauty, Architect, Form