Quotes about Architect

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. Votes: 4

Architecture begins where engineering ends. Votes: 3

Each man the architect of his own fate. Votes: 3

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. Votes: 3

Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune. Votes: 3

Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things. Votes: 3

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change Votes: 3

Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times. Votes: 3

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. Votes: 3

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect. Votes: 3

The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff. Votes: 3

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness. Votes: 3

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims. Votes: 3

Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings. Votes: 3

I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach? Votes: 3

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light. Votes: 3

When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers. Votes: 3

Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity. Votes: 3

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise. Votes: 3

Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money. Votes: 3

Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders. Votes: 3

My father, Robert Ernst, was teaching as an architect at the technical high school of our city. Votes: 3

Architect: Someone who knows the difference between that which could be done and that which should be done. Votes: 3

Architecture is the story of how we see ourselves. It is the architect's job to service everyday life. Votes: 3

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization. Votes: 3

You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony Votes: 3

You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony. Votes: 3

The design of a temple depends on symmetry , the principles of which must be most carefully observed by the architect. Votes: 3

I'm strong-willed. Architects are strong-willed. You get the best results with a strong client and a strong architect working together. Votes: 3

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact. Votes: 3

From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician. Votes: 3

Through True Love, she merges with Him. She who does not know her Husband Lord, the Architect of karma, is deluded by falsehood she herself is false. Votes: 3

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'. Votes: 3

A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect. Votes: 3

God the Father, the supreme Architect, had already built this cosmic home we behold, the most sacred temple of His godhead, by the laws of His mysterious wisdom. Votes: 3

Architecture is a service business. An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that. Votes: 3

Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition. Votes: 3

Architect's designs must refer to the unquestionable perfection of the body's symmetry and proportions. If a building is to create a sense of eurythmia, it is essential that it mirrors these natural laws of harmony and beauty Votes: 3

The Architect is just one of a series of works which examine the confrontation of innocence and experience, illustrating the complex ethics of power that exist between reader and writer, critic and artist, the human and the divine. Votes: 3

An architect is a person who builds homes or structures, stadiums even. A Supreme Architect is someone who actually built the universe. So, if I say I am the Supreme Architecture, I'm letting Allah speak. I'm becoming a vehicle. Votes: 3

The prosperity of Masonry as a means of strengthening our religion and propagating true brotherly love, is one of the dearest wishes of my heart, which, I trust, will be gratified by the help of the Grand Architect of the Universe. Votes: 3

We have already considered with disfavour the possibility of the universe having been planned by a biologist or an engineer; from the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician. Votes: 3

Gratitude is an attitude that hooks us up to our source of supply. And the more grateful you are, the closer you become to your maker, to the architect of the universe, to the spiritual core of your being. It's a phenomenal lesson. Votes: 3

Architecture has to be greater than just architecture. It has to address social values, as well as technical and aesthetic values. On top of that, the one true gift that an architect has is his or her imagination. We take something ordinary and elevate it to something extraordinary. Votes: 3

If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions, not wholly unworthy of its almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly, alone, hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors. Votes: 3

Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings. Votes: 1

If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect. Votes: 1

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. Votes: 1

As an architect, you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown. Votes: 1

A lot of people call me the architect of rock & roll. I don't call myself that, but I believe it's true. Votes: 1

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age. Votes: 1

If you were a son of mine, I wouldn't want you to be an architect, because it's a tough way to be in the world. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny. Votes: 1

The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty. Votes: 1

The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

I come from a long line of architects. I'm the only one who did not become an architect, but I've been around the drawing aspect and construction my whole life. Votes: 1

That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything - people want to be appreciated for what they have done. Votes: 1

My apartment reflects my views as an architect. It is minimal, austere. The architecture doesn't impose itself upon you. The apartment is a stage for other things to take place. Votes: 1

The first thing that an architect must do is to sense that every building you build is a world of its own, and that this world of its own serves an institution. Votes: 1

People called me a hoodlum and a thug. But they didn't tell you I was a carpenter, an architect, a stand-up comic - even a bartender. And a barbecue cook. But they didn't tell you that. Votes: 1

And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture. Votes: 1

When I was working in my first job engineering construction, what I liked the most was working with architects and making buildings that had this creative side coming from the architect and that were making them a big success. Votes: 1

I realized that I loved using computers to create something, but being an architect just wasn't going to keep me interested. The idea of a life spent obsessing over bathroom details for an Upper East Side penthouse was pretty depressing. Votes: 1

I was studying to be an architect, I wasn't plotting to join the movies. Films were just another career option. I took acting up with the same schoolgirl enthusiasm I had for examinations. Acting is a job and I take it very seriously. Votes: 1

I think that the point of being an architect is to help raise the experience of everyday living, even a little. Putting a window where people would really like one. Making sure a shaving mirror in a hotel bathroom is at the right angle. Making bureaucratic buildings that are somehow cheerful. Votes: 1

I realize that having a style would be very beneficial for my practice from a marketing standpoint, but I can't do it. I believe my responsibilities as an architect are to design the most appropriate building for the place. Each place has a distinct culture and function, which for me requires an appropriate answer. Votes: 1

When I started this project, I was a young architect. I was very apprehensive about any changes to the design. Whether I wanted to or not, I learned that you can accept some changes to its form without compromising its intent. But it's a leap of faith that I didn't want to make initially - to put it mildly. Votes: 1

God is master architect of our lives. Votes: 0

Struggle is the architect of the soul. Votes: 0

Character is the architect of the being. Votes: 0

Home is where you hang your architect. Votes: 0

Everyone is the architect of their own happiness Votes: 0

You are the architect of your own life. Votes: 0

Who is the architect? I am the architect. Votes: 0

You are the architect of your own loneliness. Votes: 0

You are the architect of your personal experience. Votes: 0

The architect must not only understand drawing, but music. Votes: 0

I'm a trained architect. Both my parents were architects. Votes: 0

Who knows, maybe I am simply a talented architect? Votes: 0

The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy. Votes: 0

Every woman is the architect of her own fortune. Votes: 0

You are the mental architect of your own destiny Votes: 0

As a child I wanted to become an architect. Votes: 0

Technology proposes itself as the architect of our intimacies. Votes: 0

I have high aspirations. I want to be an architect. Votes: 0

I'm a passionate architect... I do not work for money Votes: 0

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. Votes: 0

The greatest architect and the one most needed is hope. Votes: 0

I pray to the architect that designed me. I'm grateful. Votes: 0

An architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. Votes: 0

The word 'celebrity' and the word 'architect' are basically incompatible. Votes: 0

It's not about your greatness as an architect, but your compassion Votes: 0

I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect. Votes: 0

It's not my duty as an architect to look at it Votes: 0

Before I was 20, I was the leading architect of the Southwest. Votes: 0

My dad designed houses and was an architect for many years. Votes: 0

I look at the universe and I know there's an architect. Votes: 0

I make myself a relentless architect of the possibilities of human beings. Votes: 0

No architect should design buildings that import a huge amount of energy. Votes: 0

To the landscape architect a rock garden... appears... the work of a lunatic. Votes: 0

It is the task of the architect to give life a gentler structure. Votes: 0

I'd like to be an architect. That would be cool. I like drawing. Votes: 0

If you weren't an optimist, it would be impossible to be an architect. Votes: 0

It wasn't an architect or a designer who invented objects, but an artisan. Votes: 0

Look deeply at yourself, and see in yourself the divine architect's incomprehensible art! Votes: 0

You are the architect of the memories that others will have about you. Votes: 0

The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect. Votes: 0

There's only one Sabbath guitarist and he is the architect for everything, Tony Iommi. Votes: 0

Faber est suae quisque fortunae. Each man is the architect of his own fate. Votes: 0

Educate yourself, welcome life's messiness, read Chekhov, avoid becoming an architect at all costs. Votes: 0

I am a Brazilian before I am an architect. I cannot separate the two. Votes: 0

My dad's an architect and my mom owned a French bakery for twelve years. Votes: 0

Society needs a good image of itself. That is the job of the architect. Votes: 0

My dad's an architect and my mom owned a French bakery for twelve years Votes: 0

You know, it is life that is right and the architect who is wrong. Votes: 0

The thing is, I hate the celebrity architect thing. I just do my work. Votes: 0

If you're serious about being an architect, you've got to learn how to take responsibility. Votes: 0

An architect does not need to spend his whole career making monuments for rich people. Votes: 0

Every man is the architect of his own fortunes, but the neighbors superintend the construction. Votes: 0

You are the architect of your own future, so design your future with uncompromising sincerity. Votes: 0

No architect is held responsible for the behavior of those who inhabit the structure he designed. Votes: 0

People ask me if I'm an artist or an architect. But I think they're the same. Votes: 0

When an architect is asked what his best building is, he usually answers, "The next one." Votes: 0

Tell me what chair you've designed and I'll tell you what sort of architect you are. Votes: 0

When a man is not satisfied with a house where he lives, he becomes an architect Votes: 0

Repetition is the mother of learning, the father of action, which makes it the architect of accomplishment. Votes: 0

The fact is: You are not a manager of circumstance, you're the architect of your life's experience. Votes: 0

There are so many constraints on the architect that public buildings almost never feel free or enjoyable. Votes: 0

Some are born to invent, others to embellish; but the gilder attracts more attention than the architect. Votes: 0

Every decision you've made will impact how things go. The player's also the architect of what happens. Votes: 0

For me, I think the most exciting thing in architecture is the re-emergence of the locally-focused architect. Votes: 0

To be an architect is to possess an individual voice speaking a generally understood language of form. Votes: 0

If you have no intuitive sense of design, then call yourself an "information architect" and only use Helvetica. Votes: 0

I am the architect of rock n' roll. I have to be a fan of all its forms. Votes: 0

The difference between a builder and an architect is that an architect also cares about desire, about dreams. Votes: 0

No matter what an architect may be at home, he becomes a monumentalist when he comes to Washington. Votes: 0

I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build. Votes: 0

The problem with digital architecture is that an algorithm can produce endless variations, so an architect has many choices. Votes: 0

I'm an artist, a designer, a craftsman, interior designer, half-architect. There's no one name that fits me very well. Votes: 0

The architect Borromini's Quattro Fontane, a little church in Rome, is one of the most beautiful rooms in history. Votes: 0

You really can't function as a celebrity. Entertainers are celebrities. I'm an architect. I'm an artist. I make things. Votes: 0

I almost rented a house by an architect named Schindler, but I couldn't afford it. It was a jewel Votes: 0

Better to be the architect of something you can endorse than the placard waving protagonist standing in the rain. Votes: 0

There can be little question that the tall building presents one of the most difficult challenges to the architect. Votes: 0

I wanted to be an architect. I used to draw houses and buildings and construct buildings on my own. Votes: 0

You can say I'm not the easiest architect in the world, because I'm always trying to push the limits, Votes: 0

You can say I'm not the easiest architect in the world, because I'm always trying to push the limits. Votes: 0

An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site. Votes: 0

There is no architect Can build as the Muse can; She is skilful to select Materials for her plan. Votes: 0

An architect ought to be an educated man so as to leave a more lasting remembrance in his treatises. Votes: 0

Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror, and commotion, and remorse, and endless perturbation. Votes: 0

I am the innovator. I am the originator. I am the emancipator. I am the architect of rock 'n' roll! Votes: 0

The responsibility of an architect is to create a sense of order, a sense of place, a sense of relationship. Votes: 0

Appreciation and gratitude are a must if you choose to become the architect of increased happiness and your own fulfillment. Votes: 0

You can't make an architect. But you can open the doors and windows toward the light as you see it. Votes: 0

I may not be the most interesting architect, but I'm still out there and have maintained some position of integrity. Votes: 0

An architect doesn't go off with a shovel and dig his foundation and lay every brick. He's still an artist. Votes: 0

A musician, an artist, an architect: the man or woman who is not one of these is not a Christian. Votes: 0

I have had built, from my designs, over 40,000 living units, and that's more than any other architect that I know of. Votes: 0

I was born during the war, on October 20, 1942, as the second of five children. My father, Rolf Volhard, was an architect. Votes: 0

As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown. Votes: 0

We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future. Votes: 0

Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny. Votes: 0

A profound design process eventually makes the patron, the architect, and every occasional visitor in the building a slightly better human being. Votes: 0

A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live. Votes: 0

From when I was about seven, I thought I wanted to be an architect. I've always loved spaces and dwellings in general. Votes: 0

Once I got out of architecture school I decided not to be an architect, I just started my own little design studio. Votes: 0

The architect who really designs for a human being has to know a great deal more than just the Five Canons of Vitruvius. Votes: 0

I remember, as a young architect, people always talked about I. M. Pei's concrete. He had a particular specification no one else knew. Votes: 0

The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The two most important tools an architect has are the eraser in the drawing room and the sledge hammer on the construction site. Votes: 0

I want to do interiors, furniture. I want to do architecture, although I'm not an architect. Nor am I a trained interior designer. Votes: 0

In those countries with centuries of a craft tradition behind their building methods, techniques are tightly coordinated under the direction of the architect. Votes: 0

Any set of decisions about design is inevitably influenced by cultural prejudice, no matter how intent an architect might be to avoid it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The marvelous pharmacy that was designed by nature and placed into our being by the universal architect produces most of the medicines we need. Votes: 0

There are all sorts of ways a leader can foster interactive teaching and learning if he starts thinking, Where do I socially architect myself? Votes: 0

When it comes to government policy, can we please stop using words like "architect"? Telling people what to do is not a skilled profession. Votes: 0

The difference between a good and a poor architect is that the poor architect succumbs to every temptation and the good one resists it. Votes: 0

A bold architectural statement turns a public building into a landmark, but it is in the details where the architect becomes the real storyteller. Votes: 0

I decided I wanted to do something that was worthwhile and thought I would try architecture. There was not an architect in my family. Votes: 0

To me the drawn language is a very revealing language: one can see in a few lines whether a man is really an architect. Votes: 0

The cynic is his own worst enemy. It requires far less skill to run a wrecking company than it does to be an architect. Votes: 0

Heaven is so far of the mind that were the mind dissolved - the site of it by architect could not again be proved. Votes: 0

If an architect's ego is very small, he is done for it; if it is vast then he might make some very important contributions. Votes: 0

February-Scarlet words,Though noneThe Scarlet Letter,Entwine their way DeeperDeeperAround the fibersOf my soul.Fusing,Pulsing,Burgeoning,They absorb me,And their architect thereof. Votes: 0

A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart. Votes: 0

A couturier must be an architect for design, a sculptor for shape, a painter for color, a musician for harmony, and a philosopher for temperance. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

An architect must remember that the people working or living in his building need space - to dream, to be quiet, to find beauty somewhere. Votes: 0

Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. Votes: 0

An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that. Votes: 0

[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. Votes: 0

My identity is always at the forefront, and I also think that every article that is written about me refers to me as an Israeli architect. Votes: 0

If you focus on design, you can call yourself a designer. If you focus on the implementation of your design, you can call yourself an architect. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I'd say I never considered myself a great architect. I'm more of a creative problem solver with good taste and a soft spot for logistical nightmares. Votes: 0

My younger brother is an architect, my son and his wife are both architects, they work for me, and so I guess I've started a dynasty. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The architect's role is to fight for a better world, where he can produce an architecture that serves everyone and not just a group of privileged people. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I was good at football and cricket at school. My dad said, 'Son, be an architect,' and I came to Melbourne passionate about becoming an architect. Votes: 0

After high school I was going to be an architect. In fact, I was studying to be an architect when the audition for 'The Monkees' came along. Votes: 0

Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I'll sue!" Ian sputtered. "I'll sue you AND the dog. And the country of South Korea. And...and..." "The landscape architect?" Natalie asked. "The landscape architect!" Ian shouted. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I'd have no trouble being the barbecue kingpin of America. I'd just add it to all the other things I am: jazz musician, carpenter, architect, engineer and revolutionary. Votes: 0

It is the rare architect who does not hope in his heart to design a great building and for whom the quest is not a quiet, consuming passion. Votes: 0

I guess I can't be a great architect. Great architects have a recognizable style. But if every building I did were the same, it would be pretty boring. Votes: 0

I champion the idea of being more conscious. I call it being an active architect of your own life. Building your life like an architect builds a structure. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although it's difficult to quantify the attachment. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I practised as an architect for 10 years. I qualified in 1973 with a fellowship diploma of architecture. World Series Cricket gave me the freedom to go out and pursue architecture. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Numerous are the posthumous museums and memorials devoted exclusively to one artist, architect or author and designed to preserve or artificially reconstruct the namesake's original working or living conditions. Votes: 0

She said she married an architect, who kept her warm and safe and dry. She would like to say she loved the man, but she didn't like to lie. Votes: 0

Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Wherefore the mere practical architect is not able to assign sufficient reasons for the forms he adopts; and the theoretic architect also fails, grasping the shadow instead of the substance. Votes: 0

The chief object of every golf architect or greenkeeper worth his salt is to imitate the beauties of nature so closely as to make his work indistinguishable from nature itself. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit of our endeavour to build an earthly paradise for people. Votes: 0

As a longtime fashion enthusiast and the architect of the YMCMB lifestyle, it makes perfect sense to partner with the esteemed Bravado and move into fashion and launch my apparel brands. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech. Votes: 0

If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I have approached the buildings as psychological and poetic manifestations - rather than from the more technical viewpoints of the architect and historian (which mostly miss the living spirit behind the forms). Votes: 0

You Republicans are the arsonists who burned down our national home. Now you have the nerve to criticize the 'architect' America just hired - President Obama - to rebuild from the ashes. Votes: 0

Sunken gardens should be laid out under the supervision of an intelligent landscape architect; and even then should have a reason for being sunken other than a whim or increase in costliness. Votes: 0

A new, self-employed architect scientist is the one in all the world who may accelerate realization of a high-standard survival for all, as now completely practical within the scope of available technology. Votes: 0

A new, self-employed architect scientist is the one in all the world who may accelerate realization of a high-standard survival for all, as now completely practical within the scope of available technology. Votes: 0

The architect, Peter Arens who is the monstrous carbuncle architect, not merely did his design which had won a public competition never get built but his practice suffered financially for some years. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion, to produce buildings into which he himself may never enter. Votes: 0

In literary art, as in the art of the architect, the painter, the musician, signs that the artist is thinking of his own achievement more than of his subject always offend me. Votes: 0

Nature has provided us a spectacular toolbox. The toolbox exists. An architect far better and smarter than us has given us that toolbox, and we now have the ability to use it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The world must not only be interpreted, it must be transformed. Man ceases to be the slave and tool of his environment and converts himself into the architect of his own destiny. Votes: 0

The Art of Seeing. It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean, to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis. Votes: 0

It is not possible to design always the same. How to be different in each different place - that is the most important work and duty of the architect to find out. Votes: 0

It wasn't that I had any great dream of being an architect. I just wanted to make things. Whether it was furniture, painting, interior design, or architecture. I just wanted to create something. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I meditate every day for between ten to twenty minutes. Every morning, I work out and go to the gym for an hour. I pray to the architect that designed me. I'm grateful. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The task of the architect is to encompass everything about the site, starting from the concrete conditions and the sensory impressions created by those, to memories of the place, through empathy to vision. Votes: 0

He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be laid with trouble to the architect and danger to the building. Votes: 0

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings. Votes: 0

Wright's building made it socially and culturally acceptable for an architect to design a highly expressive, intensely personal museum. In this sense almost every museum of our time is a child of the Guggenheim. Votes: 0

Some architects think of clients only as sources of work and income but most good architecture is in fact the result of successful design collaboration between a talented architect and an enlightened, motivated client. Votes: 0

If [a woman] insisted on becoming an architect, I would try to dissuade her. If then, she was still determined, I would give her my blessing – she could be that exceptional one. Votes: 0

Only when architect, bricklayer and tenant are a unity, or one and the same person, can we speak of architecture. Everything else is not architecture, but a criminal act which has taken on form. Votes: 0

I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder, as an architect of peace. Votes: 0

When we notice a connection between our present fears and their origins in early life, we are finding out how much of our identity is designed by fear. Is fear the architect of me? Votes: 0

You don't have to become a slave in a corporate office or groupie of a celebrity architect, because all you need is a piece of paper, a pencil and the desire to make architecture. Votes: 0

My wife's an architect, so she definitely has a very high-risk artistic profession, and she gets the idea that you're really sensitive, you really care what people think, you have a low threshold for criticism. Votes: 0

I think a lot of people have the Frank Lloyd Wright model in their brains. The architect comes in with this act of creation and lays it down, and that's it. But that's not me. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Two of my theatres are 1930s and the other five are by Sprague, the greatest Edwardian architect of the lot. They've needed a lot of work doing to them but they were built very well. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0