#architect

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

— Michael Graves

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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

I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach? ↗

— Philip Johnson

#beach #build #buildings #hate #i

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

— Thomas a Kempis

#building #deeper #foundation #laid #loftier

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it. ↗

— John Ruskin

#buildings #doing #duty #first #goodness

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. ↗