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Top 20 Norman Foster Quotes (2025 Update)

Norman Foster Quote: “I think you never stop learning.”

1. “I think you never stop learning.”

— Norman Foster

Norman Foster Quote: “As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.”

2. “As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.”

— Norman Foster

Norman Foster Quote: “If you weren’t an optimist, it would be impossible to be an architect.”

3. “If you weren’t an optimist, it would be impossible to be an architect.”

— Norman Foster

Norman Foster Quote: “Architecture is an expression of values.”

4. “Architecture is an expression of values.”

— Norman Foster

Norman Foster Quote: “It takes a lot of effort to make a building look effortless.”

5. “It takes a lot of effort to make a building look effortless.”

— Norman Foster

Norman Foster Quote: “Everything inspires me; sometimes I think I see things others don’t.”

6. “Everything inspires me; sometimes I think I see things others don’t.”

— Norman Foster

Norman Foster Quote: “The pencil and computer are, if left to their own devices, equally dumb and only as good as the person driving them.”

7. “The pencil and computer are, if left to their own devices, equally dumb and only as good as the person driving them.”

— Norman Foster

Norman Foster Quote: “I am always surprised by how much little emphasis schools of architecture, and indeed, many architects, place on the process of the mating of a building.”

8. “I am always surprised by how much little emphasis schools of architecture, and indeed, many architects, place on the process of the mating of a building.”

— Norman Foster

Norman Foster Quote: “There’s a snobbery at work in architecture. The subject is too often treated as a fine art, delicately wrapped in mumbo-jumbo. In reality, it’s an all-embracing discipline taking in science, art, maths, engineering, climate, nature, politics, economics.”

9. “There’s a snobbery at work in architecture. The subject is too often treated as a fine art, delicately wrapped in mumbo-jumbo. In reality, it’s an all-embracing discipline taking in science, art, maths, engineering, climate, nature, politics, economics.”

— Norman Foster

Norman Foster Quote: “Every time I’ve flown an aircraft, or visited a steelworks, or watched a panel-beater at work, I’ve learned something new that can be applied to buildings.”

10. “Every time I’ve flown an aircraft, or visited a steelworks, or watched a panel-beater at work, I’ve learned something new that can be applied to buildings.”

— Norman Foster

Norman Foster Quote: “Since Stonehenge, architects have always been at the cutting edge of technology. And you cant separate technology from the humanistic and spiritual content of a building.”

11. “Since Stonehenge, architects have always been at the cutting edge of technology. And you cant separate technology from the humanistic and spiritual content of a building.”

— Norman Foster

Norman Foster Quote: “You cannot separate the buildings out from the infrastructure of cites and the mobility of transit.”

12. “You cannot separate the buildings out from the infrastructure of cites and the mobility of transit.”

— Norman Foster

Norman Foster Quote: “Our object in life should be to accumulate a great number of grand questions to be asked and resolved in eternity...”

13. “Our object in life should be to accumulate a great number of grand questions to be asked and resolved in eternity...”

— Norman Foster

Norman Foster Quote: “I’m not a creature of habit. I like to find things from unexpected sources.”

14. “I’m not a creature of habit. I like to find things from unexpected sources.”

— Norman Foster

Norman Foster Quote: “If the only constant is change then design is going to go on for as long as human beings inhabit the planet, and beyond the planet.”

15. “If the only constant is change then design is going to go on for as long as human beings inhabit the planet, and beyond the planet.”

— Norman Foster

Norman Foster Quote: “I was born in 1935, and as far back as I can remember, I was sketching designs. My first subject was an aircraft, which I imagined myself piloting.”

16. “I was born in 1935, and as far back as I can remember, I was sketching designs. My first subject was an aircraft, which I imagined myself piloting.”

— Norman Foster

Norman Foster Quote: “I tend to move between turtlenecks and shirts and ties. I don’t really have a uniform in the sense that some people might.”

17. “I tend to move between turtlenecks and shirts and ties. I don’t really have a uniform in the sense that some people might.”

— Norman Foster

18. “I would never wear anything with a logo. That I really find difficult. It’s a frustration that I’ll find a nice shirt or something and it’s got 50 prints of the logo on it – why do they do this?”

— Norman Foster

Norman Foster Quote: “Control is the wrong word. The practice is very much about sharing, and, in any creative practice, some individuals, whether partners or directors, are much closer to certain projects than I could ever be.”

19. “Control is the wrong word. The practice is very much about sharing, and, in any creative practice, some individuals, whether partners or directors, are much closer to certain projects than I could ever be.”

— Norman Foster

Norman Foster Quote: “Manhattan, one of the most moneyed spots on the planet, also has one of the greatest concentrations of people in its skyscrapers. Its also, of course, the place where every architect wants to build his tower.”

20. “Manhattan, one of the most moneyed spots on the planet, also has one of the greatest concentrations of people in its skyscrapers. Its also, of course, the place where every architect wants to build his tower.”

— Norman Foster

Norman Foster Quote: “Google has already tested robot cars in San Francisco. If they can navigate San Francisco, they can probably manage just about anywhere.”

21. “Google has already tested robot cars in San Francisco. If they can navigate San Francisco, they can probably manage just about anywhere.”

— Norman Foster

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