Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
The great poet is a great artist. He is painter and sculptor. The greatest pictures and statues have been painted and chiseled with words. They outlast all others.
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.
One of the things I think about as I've evolved as an architect is, 'Where do the poetic impulses come from?'
An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.
To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language.
If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect.
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.
Let every man feel that he is the architect and builder of his own life, and that he proposes to make a success of it by working.
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.