Emerson on Architects

“Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Philip Johnson: What is an architect?

“Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can turn down some clients, but we've both got to say yes to someone if we want to stay in business.”

Philip Johnson

(Shown with his model of the AT&T Buidling. Born July 8, 1906 in Cleveland, OH. Died January 25, 2005 in New Canaan, CT )

Mies On The Role Of An Architect

“The long path from material through function to creative work has only one goal: to create order out of the desperate confusion of our time. We must have order, allocating to each thing it's proper place and giving to each thing is due according to it's nature.”

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

A: What is an architect?

“I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead."

Influential English writer, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, on his collegiate declaration of study.

Sometimes fate is our friend.