Architect Quotes

As a child I wanted to become an architect.

No architect should design buildings that import a huge amount of energy.

Music, from being an ordered succession of sounds, has become a matter of "sonorities", and anyone who can produce a brightly coloured brick of unusual shape is henceforth hailed as an architect.

When it comes to government policy, can we please stop using words like "architect"? Telling people what to do is not a skilled profession.

On Church: Church wasn't designed by an architect (Technically, Jesus was a carpenter.). So why do we think of churches as buildings instead of groups of people who love Jesus?

I think that whatever you do, if you're a singer, a rapper, an architect, dentist, treat that like when you're doing it, your whole career depends on that moment.

The architect Borromini's Quattro Fontane, a little church in Rome, is one of the most beautiful rooms in history.

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

If you're serious about being an architect, you've got to learn how to take responsibility.

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

The two most important tools an architect has are the eraser in the drawing room and the sledge hammer on the construction site.

We favor hypotheses for their simplicity and explanatory power, much as the architect of the world might have done in choosing which possibility to create.

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

I was a child of a single mother/art teacher, and a father who was an architect, so I've always been around the combination of art, fine art, and architecture my entire life.

Who is the architect? I am the architect.

Every woman is the architect of her own fortune.

We may, without offending any laws of good taste, require of an architect, as we do of a novelist, that he should be not only correct, but entertaining.

My dad was an architect, and he wasn't a rich guy, but in our little world in Philadelphia he was famous. He loved to see his picture in the paper. I wanted to be more famous than him.

Architect: Someone who knows the difference between that which could be done and that which should be done.

I want to do interiors, furniture. I want to do architecture, although I'm not an architect. Nor am I a trained interior designer.

I am the architect of rock n' roll. I have to be a fan of all its forms.

Character is the architect of the being.

To the landscape architect a rock garden... appears... the work of a lunatic.

I am an architect. I try to feel the transparency in contemporary buildings and I try to understand the transparency in Zen poetry. I just want to mix all those things.

If it's one thing we learned from the first book, it's that you don't have to be a prizefighter, or a world-renowned architect, or a concert violinist to have been affected by the power of words.

Despite the persistent image of the architect as a heroic loner erecting monumental edifices through sheer force of will, the building art has always been a highly cooperative enterprise.

There can be little question that the tall building presents one of the most difficult challenges to the architect.

You really can't function as a celebrity. Entertainers are celebrities. I'm an architect. I'm an artist. I make things.

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

My dad is a very snappy dresser; he gets all his stuff tailored. He's an architect, so he's a little more artistically minded.

The job of the architect becomes more difficult in this secular age. Where once he had a god to extol, he now has humans like himself; where once he had "he," he now has "she" and "they.

I worked with my dad for 15 years. I apprenticed under him and decided I wanted to become an architect. So I went to college for it and then the acting bug got me.

[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.

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

The self-commissioned architect is the obviously exclusive potential - for as at present used, or designed, the world's resources are serving only forty-four per cent of humanity.

The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect.

There is no architect Can build as the Muse can; She is skilful to select Materials for her plan.

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

My girlfriend: sophomore honors student, demigod, and — oh, yeah — head architect for redesigning the palace of the gods on Mount Olympus in her spare time.

I hate it when people let me down, when things are temporary. I think that's why I want to be an architect." "To build something permanent," I said. "A monument to last a thousand years.

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.

Architects are by nature and pursuit, leaders and teachers.

Architects are the new comedians.

An architect doesn't go off with a shovel and dig his foundation and lay every brick. He's still an artist.

Destroy the seed and the plant will never grow. Man alone, of all creatures of earth, can change his thought pattern and become the architect of his destiny.

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

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.

A musician, an artist, an architect: the man or woman who is not one of these is not a Christian.

I have had built, from my designs, over 40,000 living units, and that's more than any other architect that I know of.

A great teacher is the architect of a great future.