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Avant-garde architects have never been able to depend on the support of the establishment, since the customary patrons of this most conservative and slowly moving art form have historically been resistant to innovation and experiment.

— Martin Filler

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

There will never be great architects or architecture without great patrons.

— Edwin Lutyens

I think the avant-garde often hides itself in the highly incomprehensible because they are frustrated that the real world is so boring.

— Bjarke Ingels

Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.

— Hans Hofmann

There are so many constraints on the architect that public buildings almost never feel free or enjoyable.

— Toyo Ito

The role of the architect as artist is an ancient one, but it was de-emphasized with the rise of modernism, which rejected the drawing-based Beaux-Arts tradition in favor of a more technocratic approach.

— Martin Filler

Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived.

— Martin Filler

Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art.

— Robert Hughes

Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.

— Rem Koolhaas

The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.

— Benjamin Haydon

✗Opposing Perspectives

I come from a long line of architects. I'm the only one who did not become an architect, but I've been around the drawing aspect and construction my whole life.

— Kym Whitley