Architect Quotes - Page 10

• I stand on this rostrum with a sense of deep humility and great pride - humility in the weight of those great American architects of our history who have stood here before me; pride in the reflection that this home of legislative debate represents human liberty in the purest form yet devised.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, Home, Humility

  Douglas MacArthur's farewell address to a Joint Session of Congress, www.americanrhetoric.com. April 19, 1951.

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• May it be my privilege to have the happiness of establishing the commonwealth on a firm and secure basis and thus enjoy the reward which I desire, but only if I may be called the author of the best possible government; and bear with me the hope when I die that the foundations which I have laid for its future government, will stand firm and stable.

  Augustus

  Latin, Government, Desire

  "Divus Augustus". Book by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus translated by Robert Graves, 1957.

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• As an architect, I learned to think and express myself on flat forms, on paper, and to imagine the contour of the lines of a design.

  Gianfranco Ferre

  Thinking, Design, Paper

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• Destroy the seed and the plant will never grow. Man alone, of all creatures of earth, can change his thought pattern and become the architect of his destiny.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Destiny, Men, Earth

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• 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

  Reading, Technology, Library

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• Every woman is the architect of her own fortune.

  Jessie Burton

  Fortune

  Jessie Burton (2014). “The Miniaturist”, p.148, Pan Macmillan

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• The job of the architect becomes more difficult in this secular age. Where once he had a god to extol, he now has humans like himself; where once he had "he," he now has "she" and "they.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Jobs, Age, Architecture

  Nikki Giovanni (1994). “Racism 101”, William Morrow & Co

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• I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.

  Tadao Ando

  Moving, People, Inspire

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• To create, one must first question everything.

  Eileen Gray

  Creativity, Creating, Design

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• Each new situation requires a new architecture.

  Jean Nouvel

  Architecture, Situation, Architecture And Design

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• The architecture we remember is that which never consoles or comforts us.

  Peter Eisenman

  Comforting, Architecture, Remember

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• There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one?

  Zaha Hadid

  Degrees, Sticks, Architecture

  "Master builder". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2003.

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• When I am asked what I believe in, I say that I believe in architecture. Architecture is the mother of the arts. I like to believe that architecture connects the present with the past and the tangible with the intangible.

  Richard Meier

  Mother, Art, Believe

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• I love paper. A nice thick pile of it and a pencil, and I'm content.

  Cecil Balmond

  Nice, Paper, Pencils

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• Inconsistency itself breeds vitality.

  Kenzo Tange

  Vitality, Inconsistency

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• It is the task of the architect to give life a gentler structure.

  Alvar Aalto

  Giving, Tasks, Architecture

  "Aalto in Finland" by R.W. Apple, Jr., www.nytimes.com. November 26, 1978.

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• If an architect's ego is very small, he is done for it; if it is vast then he might make some very important contributions.

  Paolo Soleri

  Ego, Important, Done

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• Whatever may be the judgement pronounced on the competency of the architects of the Constitution, or whatever may be the destiny of the edifice prepared by them, I feel it a duty to express my profound and solemn conviction . . . that there never was an assembly of men, charged with a great and arduous trust, who were more pure in their motives, or more exclusively or anxiously devoted to the object committed to them.

  James Madison

  Destiny, Men, Profound

  James Madison, E. H. Scott (1898). “Journal of the Federal Convention”, p.51, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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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

  Birthday, Cake, Events

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• When I was a carpenter, I once worked with this Russian lady architect. I would tell her, ‘Look, I’m terribly sorry, but I want to change that a half inch,’ and she would say, ‘No limit for better.’ I think that is a worthy credo. You keep on going until you get it as close to being right as the time and patience of others will allow.

  Harrison Ford

  Sorry, Thinking, Looks

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• The architect who combines in his being the powers of vision, of imagination, of intellect, of sympathy with human need and the power to interpret them in a language vernacular and time--- is he who shall create poems in stone.

  Louis Sullivan

  Imagination, Vision, Needs

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• Wright's building made it socially and culturally acceptable for an architect to design a highly expressive, intensely personal museum. In this sense almost every museum of our time is a child of the Guggenheim.

  Paul Goldberger

  Children, Museums, Design

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• As a child I wanted to become an architect.

  Chris Hughes

  Children, Wanted

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• I am a Brazilian before I am an architect. I cannot separate the two.

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Two

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• But then architects don't build their own houses.

  Damien Hirst

  House, Architecture

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