Architect Quotes
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Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.
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I look at the universe and I know there's an architect.
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I decided I wanted to do something that was worthwhile and thought I would try architecture. There was not an architect in my family.
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Heaven is so far of the mind that were the mind dissolved - the site of it by architect could not again be proved.
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Steve Bannon is the architect of the entire blitzkrieg that we're seeing against American values and the American people.
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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.
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Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children. That is simply good politics. He will not understand what you have to say about architecture most of the time. An architect of ability should be able to tell a client what he wants. Most of the time a client never knows what he wants.
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The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian condition: here it is the mighty act of will, the will which moves mountains, the intoxication of the strong will, which demands artistic expression. The most powerful men have always inspired the architects; the architect has always been influenced by power.
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I don't think I would ever quit acting, but there are other things I am interested in. I wanted to be an architect, and I wish I knew more about landscaping.
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The greatest architect and the one most needed is hope.
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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.
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The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.
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Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them peace and rest at last. Imagine that you are doing this but that it is essential and inevitable to torture to death only one tiny creature...in order to found that edifice on its unavenged tears. Would you consent to be the architect on those conditions? Tell me. Tell the truth.
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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?
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Don’t worry about being able to identify each of these plants (in your designs for clients). The world is full of botanists and horticulturists. All you have to do is design. You don’t have to be a botanist; you don’t have to be a bulldozer driver; you don’t have to be a fence builder; you don’t have to be an architect. What the designer has to do is look at the relationships.
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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.
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The architect must get to know the people who will live in the planned house. From their needs, the rest inevitably follows.
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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.
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The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.
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In reality some images or drawings have a greater impact than many buildings that are built.
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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
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A plan of life? ...Yet you would smile at an architect who, having a noble structure to build, should begin to work on it in a haphazard way, putting in a brick here and a stone there, weaving in straws and sticks if they come to hand, and when asked on what work he was engaged and what manner of building he intended to erect, should reply he had no plan but thought something would come of it.
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I have had built, from my designs, over 40,000 living units, and that's more than any other architect that I know of.
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“Each man is the architect of his own fortune.”
