Architect Quotes

• When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers.

  Colleen Barrett

  Work, Memorable, Needs

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• We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Future

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• The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Mother, Art, Civilization

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

  Le Corbusier

  Light, Games, Architecture

  Eveline Perroud, Le Corbusier (2007). “Opus 1, Le Corbusier”

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• I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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  Architecture begins where engineering ends.

  Walter Gropius

  Engineering, Design, Architecture

  Speech at Harvard Department of Architecture. "Architects on Architecture". Book by Paul Heyer, 1966.

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• Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

  William S. Burroughs

  Change, Art, Real

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

  Frank Gehry

  Badass, Bad Ass, Talking

  "Home". Book by Kim Johnson Gross, Jeff Stone, and Julie V. Iovine, p. 43, 1993.

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• He who rejects change is the architect of decay.

  Harold Wilson

  Change, Life Changing, Acceptance

  Speech to the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France, quoted in "The New York Times", (p. 12), January 24, 1967.

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• Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Life, Mean, Men

  Frank Lloyd Wright, Edgar Kaufmann, Ben Raeburn (1960). “Frank Lloyd Wright: writings and buildings”

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• I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  God, Atheist, Nature

  Quote magazine, August 14, 1966.

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

  Harold Wilson

  Change, Life Changing, Teaching

  Speech to the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France, quoted in "The New York Times", (p. 12), January 24, 1967.

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• Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.

  Richard Rogers

  Principles, Architecture, Form

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• Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

  Philip Johnson

  Funny, Art, Badass

  New York Times 27 Dec. 1964, p. 9E

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• Artists to my mind are the real architects of change.

  William S. Burroughs

  Real, Artist, Mind

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Gratitude is an attitude that hooks us up to our source of supply. And the more grateful you are, the closer you become to your maker, to the architect of the universe, to the spiritual core of your being. It's a phenomenal lesson.

  Bob Proctor

  Spiritual, Gratitude, Attitude

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Jan 27, 2017

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• No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical.

  Michael Ende

  People, House, Design

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• Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Careers, Architecture, Building

  Marcus VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Joseph GWILT (1826). “The Architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio in Ten Books, Translated from the Latin by J. Gwilt”, p.170

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• Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

  Two, Together, Bricks

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• If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting.

  Arne Jacobsen

  Art, House, Tasks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.

  Ted Dexter

  Mean, House, Cracks

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

  Terry McMillan

  Life, Responsibility, Ifs

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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

  Art, Architecture, Painter

  'Lectures on Architecture and Painting' (1853) 61, addenda

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• 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, Ambition, Usa

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• 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

  Law, History, Historical

  Guy Mannering ch. 37 (1815)

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