Bobby Seale Quotes

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!

Building is just skilled labor, I suppose. It's a lot of work. I don't mind other people building them, but the way things go together and are made is interesting to me; I like that a lot.

It was very useful to learn the history, the theory, and the art of building from a practical background.

I went back to college for construction and design.

I wanted a real profession. And I'd always been interested in architecture and in design and in, really, what makes things work. And understanding what's kind of behind the walls and why things stand up and some things don't.

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

My main profession is architect.

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

You build a player like you build a house. You start with the foundations. The fundamentals.

I wanted to be an architect. I used to draw houses and buildings and construct buildings on my own.

I like building.

We refuse to recognize problems of form, but only problems of building. Form is not the aim of our work, but only the result. Form, by itself, does not exist. Form as an aim is formalism; and that we reject.

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

If, early on, you know how things are put together, then you can build. The architect is in charge of making - he is not an artist.

I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high school I went into architectural drafting. It gave me an understanding of how to build things and it's really helped me put things in perspective. With my music and my movies, to me it's all art.

My father was a construction engineer, and my mother was a production engineer.

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.

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.

I am an architect at heart. I designed every home I've ever had, plus my studio.

Construction will always be needed. You will always need to renovate projects.

I am an engineer, not just an architect, so I've always been motivated by technique or technology. As soon as technology moves just a little bit, it changes architecture.

Architecture remains a passion and a subject I'm very interested in. I learned a great deal from studying it and working in it.

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.

My father was an architect.

Building is a sweet impoverishing.