Architect Quotes: Inspiring Words to Shape Your World

"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"

Walter Scott, Novelist

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

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

"You are the architect of your own destiny; you are the master of your own fate; you are behind the steering wheel of your own life. There are no limitations to what you can do, have, or be except the limitations you place on yourself by your own thinking"

Ben Sweetland, Author

"Every man is the architect of his own fortune"

Sallust, Historian

"A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines"

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

"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"

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

"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"

Alfred A. Montapert, Philosopher

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

Harold Wilson, Statesman

"Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect"

Terry McMillan, Author

"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"

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Writer

"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"

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

"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"

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

"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"

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

"Every person is the architect of their own fortune"

Jordan Belfort, Author

"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"

John Ruskin, Writer

"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"

John Ruskin, Writer

"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"

Arne Jacobsen, Architect

"With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change"

Arne Jacobsen, Architect

"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"

Quintilian, Educator

"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"

Luis Barragan, Architect

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

Parker Stevenson, Actor

"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"

Marcus V. Pollio, Architect

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

Alison Lohman, Actress

"My father, Robert Ernst, was teaching as an architect at the technical high school of our city"

Richard Ernst, Scientist

"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"

Michael Arad, Architect

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

Helmut Jahn, Architect

"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"

Aishwarya Rai, Actress

"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"

Sandra Bullock, Actress

"From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician"

James Jeans, Physicist

"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"

Roger Waters, Musician

"There's only one Sabbath guitarist and he is the architect for everything, Tony Iommi"

Zakk Wylde, Musician

"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"

Rem Koolhaas, Architect

"Well, the whole story is in the book, but the short answer is that I was the first information architect in an organization that was traditionally design-oriented, and I felt I needed a tool to help me gain the trust and support of my colleagues"

Jesse James Garrett, Businessman

"A journalist and an information architect face exactly the same problem - how to give shape to the pile of information in front of you in a way that will make it easy and natural for people to comprehend. I can't imagine any better preparation for the work I do now"

Jesse James Garrett, Businessman

"Who is the architect? I am the architect"

Jeff Rich, Explorer

"As a child I wanted to become an architect"

Chris Hughes, Entrepreneur

"The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don't design it for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We don't really care, as long as we're selling the one the customer wants"

Michael Dell, Businessman

"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, Composer

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

Arthur Erickson, Architect

"My father knew the charming side of my mother, and my mother thought that he was attentive and pleasant and was an architect, which was a respectable profession, but I don't think that they actually got to know one another deeply"

Christopher Durang, Playwright

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