#architect

I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics. ↗

— Jay Chiat

#architecture #doing #focusing #great #great work

The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#exterior #house #interior #outside #part

The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth. ↗

— Michael Graves

#around #been #centered #dialogue #idea

I look upon myself as a musical bricklayer with architectural aspirations. ↗

— Robert Mayer

#aspirations #bricklayer #i #look #musical

Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life. ↗

— Arne Jacobsen

#become #consume #else #entire #entire life

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

#architecture #big #come #curtains #daylight

Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns. ↗

— Arne Jacobsen

#air #beauty #been #between #blocks

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

#anything #architect #because #begin #building

The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid. ↗

— Thomas a Kempis

#building #deeper #foundation #laid #loftier