Architect Quotes - Page 5

• Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly. The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Inspirational, Funny, Beautiful

  "A Living Architecture: Frank Lloyd Wright and Taliesin Architects". Book by John Rattenbury, 2000.

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• I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more.

  Thom Mayne

  Ideas, Vision, World

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• Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Inspiration, Luxury, Giving

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• Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Country, Style, Cuckoo Clocks

  Toronto Star Weekly 4 Mar. 1922, in William White By-line: Ernest Hemingway (1967) p. 18 See also F. Scott Fitzgerald (6.20)

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• Color is a very critical thing. I've found that architects don't like colors. Engineers too. And so somebody has to stand in. Because this is the finish of it. It is the emotional part of a structure.

  John Hench

  Emotional, Color, Structure

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• I am trying to counter the fixity of architectures, their stolidity, with elements that give an ineffable immaterial quality.

  Toyo Ito

  Giving, Trying, Quality

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• Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.

  Kenzo Tange

  Design, Today, Ordinary

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• Each man the architect of his own fate.

  Sallust

  Responsibility, Fate, Men

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• The architect, Peter Arens who is the monstrous carbuncle architect, not merely did his design which had won a public competition never get built but his practice suffered financially for some years.

  Anthony Holden

  Years, Practice, Design

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• A journalist and an information architect face exactly the same problem - how to give shape to the pile of information in front of you in a way that will make it easy and natural for people to comprehend. I can't imagine any better preparation for the work I do now.

  Jesse James Garrett

  People, Giving, Preparation

  Interview with Erin Malone, boxesandarrows.com. October 27, 2002.

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• With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change.

  Arne Jacobsen

  Building, Used, Painter

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Character, Kwanzaa, Fortune

  Ludwig Von Mises (1969). “Bureaucracy”, ICON Group International

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• And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture.

  Arne Jacobsen

  Order, Play, House

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Faber est suae quisque fortunae. Each man is the architect of his own fate.

  Appius Claudius Caecus

  Fate, Men, Fate And Destiny

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• I was studying to be an architect, I wasn't plotting to join the movies. Films were just another career option. I took acting up with the same schoolgirl enthusiasm I had for examinations. Acting is a job and I take it very seriously.

  Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

  Jobs, Careers, Acting

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• A White House dinner is the American family assembled, from labor leaders to billionaires, actors, architects, academicians and athletes.

  Hugh Sidey

  Athlete, White, House

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• 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 Armand Montapert

  Wrestling, Destiny, Action

  Alfred Armand Montapert (1986). “Pray to Win!: A Blueprint for Success”, Value Pub.

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• 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

  Stupid, Silly, Thinking

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• A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

  Louis Kahn

  Mean, Architecture, Building

  "Secrets behind the world's great buildings" by Jonathan Glancey, www.cnn.com. October 26, 2016.

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• All architects want to live beyond their deaths.

  Philip Johnson

  Death, Want, Architecture

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• 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

  Heart, Brain, Way

  Speech by Financial Secretary, Mr John C Tsang, at Inauguration Ceremony of School of Architecture, www.info.gov.hk. January 15, 2010.

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• The Architect is just one of a series of works which examine the confrontation of innocence and experience, illustrating the complex ethics of power that exist between reader and writer, critic and artist, the human and the divine.

  John Scott

  Artist, Innocence And Experience, Ethics

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

  Zakk Wylde

  Guitar, Sabbath, Guitarist

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

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Boards, Bars, Tools

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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

  Powerful, Character, Animal

  "Institutes of Oratory (Volume II)". Book by Quintilian, 95 CE.

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