131 Architect Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

Change Progress Architect Only He Institution Decay Human Cemetery Which Who Rejects

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

Doctor Plant Mistakes Architect Only Advise Clients His Bury Vines

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

Knowledge History Mechanic Lawyer Possesses Some Architect He Mere Mason Venture Call Himself Without May Literature Working

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 Plant Physician First Mistakes Build Possible Architect Only Advise Client Buildings Go His As Far As Bury Far Should Vines

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 and lone and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors. Abraham Lincoln

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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 Architect Only He Builder Person Sculptor Who Painter

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 Man Blame Sometimes Own Every Changing Way Architect Someone Something He Instead Like Looks Himself Builds Built However His Just After Decide Wants Every Man

Our visions are the plans of the possible life structure, but they will end in plans if we do not follow them up with a vigorous effort to make them real, just as the architect's plans will end in his drawings if they are not followed up and made real by the builder. Orison Swett Marden

Being in construction my whole life - I was trained as an architect - I always had to work with guys. And I always did my homework and then challenged them to figure it out faster than me. They don't want to be shown up by a woman. Catherine Hardwicke

Life Work Me Woman Construction Homework Faster Out Architect Guys Had Always Up Trained Than Did Being Want Them Then Figure Whole Shown Challenged

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

Tools Architect Most Eraser Site Bar Board Useful Drafting

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

Wisdom God Home Father Temple Cosmic Architect Laws Mysterious Sacred Had Most Supreme Built His Godhead Behold

I think you need to, as an architect, understand the essence of a place and create a building that feels like it resonates with the culture of a place. So my buildings in India or in Kansas City or in Arkansas or in Singapore, they come out different because the places are so different. Moshe Safdie

You Culture Building Think Resonates Out India City Architect Arkansas Feels Come Like Singapore Because Understand Buildings Essence Different Place Places Create Kansas Kansas City Need

The day I went to see my father to say I wanted to become an architect, he was a bit surprised, because for him being a builder is much more than being just an architect. He was very angry, and I never thought I could do something else. Renzo Piano

Day Angry Father Thought Become Else Say Bit See Architect Something Something Else More Could Never He Him Because Builder Surprised Very Than Just Being Wanted Much

The difference between a builder and an architect is that an architect also cares about desire, about dreams. Renzo Piano

Dreams Cares About Architect Between Also Builder Difference Desire

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

Man Architecture Those Architect More Make Task Precise Sentiments Therefore

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 Me Guidance Old Thought Kid Architect Counselor Had Because Years Going Choice Convinced Career Career Choice

I'm an architect. Before you start pouring the concrete, you build a foundation that is solid so that when you take the scaffolding down, it holds - forever. So that when junior high schools are doing 'Hunchback,' a 12-year-old as Frollo still works on some level. Alan Menken

You Build Before Down Solid Scaffolding High Some Architect High Schools Take Pouring Schools Concrete Still Doing Forever Junior Junior High Holds Works Foundation Level Start

I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect. Alexander Jackson Davis

Architecture Living Architect Most Buildings American Any Designed

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. Alice Morse Earle

Increase Other Out Architect Supervision Intelligent Than Being Laid Whim Then Should Landscape Reason Even Gardens

So the premise of 'The Submission' is that there's an anonymous competition to design a 9/11 memorial and it's won by an American Muslim, an architect born and raised in Virginia, and his name is Mohammad Khan. Amy Waldman

Competition Submission Design Virginia Khan Muslim Memorial Born Architect Name Anonymous His Won American Premise Raised

There's no architect who doesn't want to build a library - and I am no different. With so much scrutiny now attached to reading - because of technology and how we approach it as a social activity - that is a very exciting area in architecture. Annabelle Selldorf

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