Design Your Life: Quotes by Amazing Architects

(Photo by Philipp Klinger)

I love architecture, I am a closet dork for looking at buildings, furniture, bridges, and pretty much anything that is more structure and usable than a typical piece of art. There is something about looking at a piece of art that is being utilized that jump starts my interests faster than seeing a sexy brunette in little black dress.

While the artists offered us direct forms of creativity and appreciation, architects offered us something that we could use. While much architecture is taken for granted across the world, there is no denying that these brilliant minds who made some of these amazing structures had some serious insight into the human mind and how we live our day to day lives.

So in their honor, here is a selection of quotations from architects who may not just make your chair, car, and skyscraper, but also might construct some inspiration and motivation the next time you are slumming around in your life

Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.
-Daniel Burnham

Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate.
-Addison Mizner

And sometimes I’m criticized. But I think that if those who criticize us will look at the reason why the shape is this, well then, I think that they would not object so strenuously.
-Minoru Yamasaki

Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism… but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.
-Frank Lloyd Wright

When we dream alone it is only a dream, but when many dream together it is the beginning of a new reality.
-Friedensreich Hundertwasser

Less is more.
-Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.
-Adolf Loos

Life deprived of beauty is not worthy of being called human.
-Luis Barragan

Men can do all things if they will.
-Leon Battista Alberti