You really can’t function as a celebrity. Entertainers are celebrities. I’m an architect. I’m an artist. I make things. ~ Maya Ying Lin

True architecture exists only where man stands in the center. ~ Alvar Aalto, Newsweek, 7/16/79

Architect: One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money. ~ Ambrose Bierce

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in. ~ François Voltaire

Architecture is frozen music. ~ Johann von Goethe

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright

Architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. Creative work is expressed in our time as a union of technology and humanity. ~ Kenzo Tange

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light. ~ Le Corbusier

A design career is a process of learning better and better what you know instinctively. ~ Mario Bellini

Architects cannot teach nature anything. Mark Twain

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