Architect Quotes

Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn't like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself.
Sydney Madwed

Life, Someone, Blame

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

Change, Human, Progress

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

Age, Time, Great

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Mistakes, Doctor, Plant

Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.
Ambrose Bierce

Money, Plan, House

An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Useful, Tools, Bar

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

Great, Heart, Brain

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

Nature, Live, Him

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

Great, Person, Painter

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

Beauty, May, Hand

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

True, Him, Sense

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

Life, Destiny, Action

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

Home, Mistakes, Far

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

History, Knowledge, May

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
Adolf Loos

Task, Sentiments, Arouses

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

Down, Building, Hobby

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

God, Home, Wisdom

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

Happy, Game, Far

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

Direction, Behind, Building

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
Sallust

When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an architect, because when I was 12 years old I had a guidance counselor that convinced me that that was the best career choice for me.
Al Yankovic

Best, Career, Thought

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

Nature, God, Character

I've wanted to design golf courses ever since I was a kid. I suppose it comes from the way I've played the game. To find the proper way to play any hole, I've always begun by asking myself what the architect has tried to do with it.
Jack Nicklaus

Design, Game, Find

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.
Courteney Cox

Wish, Acting, Wanted

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.
Vidal Sassoon

Education, Thought, Question

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

Integrity, Lost, Here

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.
Tadao Ando

Design, Difficult, Involved

So if you're a customer today, the same person who came in to demonstrate the technology for you and helped you architect the solution before you bought it is likely going to be leading the team to help you do the implementation.
Sanjay Kumar

Technology, Today, Help

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.
Jacques Pepin

Mother, Different, Wanted

Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.
Marcus V. Pollio

Care, Nothing, Buildings

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