Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect.
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.
As an architect, you cannot be so arrogant as to say you are 100% sure about what you do.
May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good.
I am a failed architect, if I'm honest. I got a degree in art history and was about to get another degree, in architecture, but realized I would be terrible at building things because I've got really bad spatial awareness.
In Europe, architects consider themselves artists. They think they're special when they win a competition.
The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.
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.
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.
The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions.