"I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see.“


-Roger Waters

posted in architecture


I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see.

Other Quotes You Might Like

Discover more inspiring quotes from our collection

"I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of the best things that could happen to a kid if he's going to write poetry or songs."

-Roger Waters

poetryView Quote
"It's a miracle was the last track recorded for the album, we based it on the rhythm from the middle of 'Late Home Tonight, where there's Graham Broad playing lots and lots of drums with me shouting in the background, pretending to be a mad Arab leader."

-Roger Waters

homeView Quote
"Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world."

-Roger Waters

deathView Quote
"How sweet it is!"

-Jackie Gleason

migrate3View Quote
"We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack."

-Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

migrate3View Quote
"It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week."

-Laurence J. Peter

migrate3View Quote

More Quotes About architecture

Explore other inspiring quotes in this category

"The architecture of our future is not only unfinished the scaffolding has hardly gone up."

-George Lamming

architectureView Quote
"There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons."

-Edwin Lutyens

architectureView Quote
"Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved."

-Richard Meier

architectureView Quote
"Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture."

-James Wyatt

architectureView Quote
"Architecture aims at Eternity."

-Christopher Wren

architectureView Quote
"First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture."

-Gustav Stickley

architectureView Quote