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.
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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.
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 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.
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
In Europe, architects consider themselves artists. They think they're special when they win a competition.
Who is the architect? I am the architect.
If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting.
The difference between a builder and an architect is that an architect also cares about desire, about dreams.
If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect.
If, early on, you know how things are put together, then you can build. The architect is in charge of making - he is not an artist.