Architect Quotes
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.
As an architect, I learned to think and express myself on flat forms, on paper, and to imagine the contour of the lines of a design.
An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.
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.
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.
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
Dealing with people is probably the biggest problem you face, especially if you are in business. Yes, and that is also true if you are a housewife, architect or engineer.
If an architect wants to strengthen a decrepit arch, he increases the load laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly together.
No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.
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.
I still want to be an architect and score films and do other things. I always said as long as I've still got teeth and hair and I look cool when I look in the mirror, then I'll do it.
Appreciation and gratitude are a must if you choose to become the architect of increased happiness and your own fulfillment.
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.
Just because you are an architect and make decent buildings does not mean that you can suddenly become a set designer for one of the best avant-garde dancers in the world.
The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a mater-architect; in execution, the labors of many.
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?
The difference between a good and a poor architect is that the poor architect succumbs to every temptation and the good one resists it.
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.
Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror, and commotion, and remorse, and endless perturbation.
The great problem of the concert hall is that the shoebox is the ideal shape for acoustics but that no architect worth their names wants to build a shoebox.
I have an expensive hobby: buying homes, redoing them, tearing them down and building them up the way they want to be built. I want to be an architect.
Form follows function, as the architects say. With words and pictures, you can do just about anything.
I may not be the most interesting architect, but I'm still out there and have maintained some position of integrity.
Heaven is so far of the mind that were the mind dissolved - the site of it by architect could not again be proved.
I think Miss Monroe as architecture is extremely good architecture, and she's a very natural actress, and a very good one.
There are all sorts of ways a leader can foster interactive teaching and learning if he starts thinking, Where do I socially architect myself?
No matter what an architect may be at home, he becomes a monumentalist when he comes to Washington.
Many working families are both prisoners and architects of the time bind in which they find themselves.
In those countries with centuries of a craft tradition behind their building methods, techniques are tightly coordinated under the direction of the architect.
I wanted to be an architect. I used to draw houses and buildings and construct buildings on my own.
My fabulous architect godfather and mentor told me once that striving toward a goal - or perfection - gives one focus and direction, which is a helluva lot better than chasing one's tail.
Britain gets the architecture it deserves. We don’t value architecture, we don’t take it seriously, we don’t want to pay for it and the architect isn’t trusted.
I'm strong-willed. Architects are strong-willed. You get the best results with a strong client and a strong architect working together.
I think my best skill as an architect is the achievement of hand-to-eye coordination. I am able to transfer a sketch into a model into the building.
You should just enjoy it, but as soon as you decide that it is going to be your career, no matter whether you want to be a doctor or an architect or anything else, you need to work 5 hours a day.
