131 Architect Quotes for You to Enjoy

Did you know that da Vinci was a painter, polymath, engineer, architect, biologist, and writer all rolled into one? He drew sketches of helicopters at a time when they weren't even invented! Pranav Mistry

Time You Engineer Architect Drew Invented Writer He Know Were Did Sketches Helicopters Painter Even Biologist

You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony. Renzo Piano

You Architecture Criticism Harmony Architect Rely Accept Should Full Exposed

When you design a building, you start from a general philosophy, and you come down, and you start from detail and come up. Only the theoretical architect believes that you can make the concept and then sometime, somebody will come to build it. Renzo Piano

As an architect, you cannot be so arrogant as to say you are 100% sure about what you do. Renzo Piano

You Arrogant Say About Architect Sure Cannot

Edelman diversified into public affairs in the late '60s with important programs for the Concorde SST, gaining landing rights at JFK Airport in New York, and in the late '70s generating public approval for the building of the very stark Vietnam Veterans War Memorial in Washington, D.C., from a design by the very young architect Maya Lin. Richard Edelman

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The first time I had sushi, I hated it. And the second time was no different, and then, I just started loving it. I actually crave for sushi. It's one of the healthiest meals. My experiments with food began when I was working in New York as an architect, be it Korean or Ethiopian food or fusion food. Riteish Deshmukh

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I did a cake for the 60th birthday of Elton John, for Britney Spears' 27th birthday and for the 'Circus' album she put out - the cake had circus themes. I prepared a cake for a surprise 82nd birthday event for the architect Frank Gehry; the cake was comprised of mini-replicas of his buildings. Ron Ben-Israel

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I'm going to have to go with math. Even though that's one of my harder subjects, but it's one of the funnest. Because I also want to be an architect when I grow up, if I can, and I know that being an architect takes a lot of math in it. Sterling Beaumon

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When you get an invitation to come back and be part of the team that will be the architect of the next generation of growth, when you get an opportunity in a business of the size and scope of McDonald's, that's incredibly attractive. Steve Easterbrook

In a way, the whole notion of a blueprint of a building is not that different from a script for a movie. A sequence of spaces, which is what you do as an architect, is really the same as a sequence of scenes. Susanne Bier

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The reason for a lot of bands not making it is because they don't really understand that your job is sort of divided into two different things. It's one thing creating it... It's like being an architect but also a construction worker. Tobias Forge

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I am an architect at heart. I designed every home I've ever had, plus my studio. Tyler Perry

Home Heart Every Plus Architect Had Studio Am Ever Designed

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. Vitruvius

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The greatest responsibility of the planner and architect, I believe, is the protection and development of our habitat. Walter Gropius

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Hawks is great, 'The Treasure of Sierra Madre,' 'The Big Sleep'... He could do the Salt-of-the-Earth very well. He was a very smooth director; a very good film architect in terms of his storytelling. Wes Craven

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Before I was 20, I was the leading architect of the Southwest. Willis Polk

Before Architect Leading Southwest

I used to not like being called a 'woman architect': I'm an architect, not just a woman architect. Guys used to tap me on the head and say, 'You are okay for a girl.' But I see the incredible amount of need from other women for reassurance that it could be done, so I don't mind that at all. Zaha Hadid

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

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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

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You must understand the difference between being an architect and a politician. Architecture is a profession of perseverance. You have to come through. The politician is there to blame someone. Santiago Calatrava

You Perseverance Blame Architecture Politician Must Architect Someone Through Between Come Understand Difference Being Profession

I've been an entrepreneur, a writer, a food correspondent. I might have been an architect - but I'm bad at maths. Prue Leith

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