A Quote by Benjamin Haydon

The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.

Benjamin Haydon

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Architects Artists England Legitimate Only

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Benjamin Haydon
British - Artist
January 26, 1786 - June 22, 1846

Those who say only artists and architects can create are the ones who are elitist.

Frank Gehry

It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.

Olafur Eliasson

Purses are dreamt up by artists, not architects.

Lauren Conrad

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change.

William S. Burroughs

The only legitimate purpose of government is to serve citizens, and ... the only legitimate purpose of technology is to improve our lives, not to manipulate or enslave us.

Rebecca MacKinnon

In Europe, architects consider themselves artists. They think they're special when they win a competition.

Helmut Jahn

The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.

Arthur Erickson

If England was what England seems, An not the England of our dreams, But only putty, brass, an' paint, 'Ow quick we'd chuck 'er! But she ain't!

Rudyard Kipling

There is an effective strategy open to architects. Whereas doctors deal with the interior organisms of man, architects deal with the exterior organisms of man. Architects might join with one another to carry on their work in laboratories as do doctors in anticipatory medicine.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Violence is not inevitable. I mean, the only inevitable form of violence is the kind that we understand, the only legitimate (if there can ever be legitimate violence) and that's self-defense.

Gloria Steinem

If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect.

Philip Johnson

I collaborate with Tidal because they're for the artists - the up and coming artists and the O.G.s in the game. It's like a home, the only place we have for the artists to find support.

Fat Joe

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

William S. Burroughs

A large number of us have developed a feeling that architects tend to design houses for the approval of fellow architects and critics, not for the tenants.

Prince Charles

The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.