Richard Meier Quotes

I am an architect, first.

You can never draw enough or read enough - reading about architecture, in other words.

My main profession is architect.

My father was an architect.

One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.

The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.

Even though designing your own show, that's great, I am nothing without the support around me.

When I am asked what I believe in, I say that I believe in architecture. Architecture is the mother of the arts. I like to believe that architecture connects the present with the past and the tangible with the intangible.

I am very interested in architecture. I've been asked if I'd ever direct, but me, I'd rather build. It's very similar to directing, because you get to walk among this piece of art, to live in it, be surrounded by it, which is just thrilling.

I have high aspirations. I want to be an architect.

I'd like to be an architect. That would be cool. I like drawing.

Architecture is by definition a very collaborative process.

My father, Robert Ernst, was teaching as an architect at the technical high school of our city.

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.

As an architect, I always have mixed feelings. On the one hand, your fingers are itching. As a human being, you are happy to participate in the indolence.

I love architecture.

Of course I know very little about architecture, and the older I get the less I know.

When people ask how have I kept on top, I have to say with the help of every photographer, make-up artist and hairdresser I've ever worked with.

I don't really look around and say, 'I've made it.' I just look around and think how fortunate I am to work with the people I'm working with.

I like to play with architecture! It's my favorite game.

But I'm blessed to work with great people. I collaborate with brilliant stylists both here and in Paris. I work with a great design team. I really allow everyone to bring their ideas. I almost rely on them to inspire me.

I always look forward to the next project. That is one of the wonderful things about architecture - you always can hope for another project to design.

I'm a trained architect. Both my parents were architects.

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 just feel very grateful to be a part of that, to be a part of a winning team... I'm trying hard not to be used to it, but I am kind of. It is something where I've run out of people that I want to work with because I've worked with everybody I ever wanted to. I really have. I can't think of anyone I'd want to work with right now because I'd just want to work with the same people again.