Jonathan Scott Quotes

My father was a master carpenter and builder. Architectural design, engineering design, mechanical design, three-dimensional views, that was my shtick, my forte.

I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was - and is - a builder in my family.

I enjoy construction and the process of building things, so maybe I'd be a developer of some kind - residential and commercial. Because I produce a lot of television now, I enjoy building things from the ground up, whether it's a physical structure or a show, and seeing them and realizing them.

In high school, I majored in brick masonry. We had the wood shop, the machine shop, so I know about all that. I wanted to build buildings when I graduated from high school. I do know my way around that stuff.

I can build a house with my bare hands. In my late teens I was in a band with my friend Henrik, and his builder father thought we needed something to fall back on, so he taught us carpentry and bricklaying and we built a house over two years.

I was following my dad around from a young age. I don't know if it's genetic or just because I was surrounded by it, but I was always fascinated with building and construction and development.

I like building.

But after the time there I'd had it with fashion again, so I left to go to architecture school in a summer course at Harvard, which didn't last very long.

I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do.

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

I could build and roof a house, though electricity is not my thing.

I'll always build houses.

My brothers were tremendous shack builders. My shacks were horrible. My brothers once built a two-story shack from the ground up that was awesome!

When I was handed a hammer, my first project was building a three-story tree house.

You can be a mason and build 50 buildings, but it doesn't mean you can design one.

I just wondered how things were put together.

I like building and making things. I, perhaps, would like to try my hand at directing one day. Sometimes I fancy myself as an architect - but I think I might need to go back to school for that.

Before I was 20, I was the leading architect of the Southwest.

I didn't know what architecture was except that I lived in a house. I don't even think that I knew the word for a long time. My dad funneled me into engineering because it was his background.

Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.

I like to build houses.

My main profession is architect.

I don't know if it's genetic or just because I was surrounded by it, but I was always fascinated with building and construction and development.

I am involved in the architecture of space.

I don't see any difference between architecture and engineering. It's the same profession.