Architect Quotes

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. (Harold Wilson)
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. View quote
Luis Barragán
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age. View quote
Frank Lloyd Wright
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. View quote
Frank Lloyd Wright
An architect, to be a true exponent of his time, must possess first, last and always the sympathy, the intuition of a poet ... this is the one real, vital principle that survives through all places and all times. View quote
Louis Sullivan
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. View quote
Walter Scott
We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future. View quote
Robin S. Sharma
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. View quote
Frank Gehry
I am obsessed with architecture. It is true, I am restless, trying to find myself as an architect, and how best to contribute in this world filled with contradiction, disparity, and inequality, even passion and opportunity. View quote
Frank Gehry
If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect. View quote
Philip Johnson
From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician. (James Jeans)
Let him [who would be an architect] be educated, skillful with the pencil, instructed in geometry, know much history, have followed the philosophers with attention, understand music, have some knowledge of medicine, know the opinions of the jurists, and be acquainted with astronomy and the theory of the heavens. View quote
Vitruvius
The design of a temple depends on symmetry, the principles of which must be most carefully observed by the architect. View quote
Vitruvius
As for philosophy, it makes an architect high-minded and not self-assuming, but rather renders him courteous, just, and honest without avariciousness. This is very important, for no work can be rightly done without honesty and incorruptibility. View quote
Vitruvius
An architect ought to be an educated man so as to leave a more lasting remembrance in his treatises. View quote
Vitruvius
In all matters but particularly in architecture ...that which is signified is the subject of which we may be speaking and that which gives significance is a demonstration on scientific principles. ...One who professes himself an architect should be well versed in both directions. View quote
Vitruvius
Music, also, the architect ought to understand so that he may have knowledge of the canonical and mathematical theory, and besides be able to tune ballistae, catapultae, and scorpiones to the proper key. For to the right and left in the beams are the holes in the frames through which the strings of twisted sinew are stretched by means of windlasses and bars, and these strings must not be clamped and made fast until they give the same correct note to the ear of the skilled workman. View quote
Vitruvius
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. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Thirty, 40 years ago, more than that now, even, the cook was certainly at the bottom of the social scale. And any mother would've wanted their child to marry a doctor, a lawyer, an architect, not a cook. Now, we are genius, it's different. View quote
Jacques Pepin
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. View quote
Arne Jacobsen
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. (David Amram)
The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions. View quote
Helmut Jahn
I am a Brazilian before I am an architect. I cannot separate the two. View quote
Oscar Niemeyer
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. View quote
Friedensreich Hundertwasser
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. View quote
Philip Johnson