Le Corbusier
Architect, Designer, Urban Planner
"You know, it is life that is right and the architect who is wrong."
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Frank Lloyd Wright
Architect
"If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life."
Frank Lloyd Wright
Architect
"The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect."
Philip Johnson
Architect
"If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect."
Christopher Alexander
Architect
"In my life as an architect, I found that the single thing which inhibits young professionals, new students most severely, is their acceptance of standards that are too low."
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"No stream rises higher than its source"
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"When the materials are all prepared and ready, the architects shall appear."
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"I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work."
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"If you focus on design, you can call yourself a designer. If you focus on the implementation of your design, you can call yourself an architect."
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"The decisions of our past are the architects of our present."
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"My affection for CinemaScope initially was my affection for the horizontal line as I learned it from having been apprenticed to an architect who was someone named Frank Lloyd Wright."
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"The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff."
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"What if you're Gaudi and you know you're the best architect and everyone is saying that you're saying you're the best architect the wrong way?"
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"Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves."
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"Heaven is so far of the mind that were the mind dissolved - the site of it by architect could not again be proved."
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"I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain."
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"I think Miss Monroe as architecture is extremely good architecture, and she's a very natural actress, and a very good one."
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"I almost rented a house by an architect named Schindler, but I couldn't afford it. It was a jewel"
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"The fact is: You are not a manager of circumstance, you're the architect of your life's experience."
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"Ballybunion is the course on which many golf architects should live and play on before they build golf courses."
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"Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts."
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"Architects cannot teach nature anything."
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"We are all architects of faith, ever living in these walls of time."
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"I hate the celebrity architect thing. I just do my work. The press comes up with this stuff and it sticks. I hate the word starchitect. Stuff like that comes from mean-spirited, untalented journalists. It's demeaning."
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"As a child I wanted to become an architect."
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