Samuel Mockbee Quotes

The hand expresses what the heart already knows.

The meaning resides in one's own experience, making the everyday the exceptional.

Everyone, rich or poor, deserves a shelter for the soul, architects should lead in procuring social and environmental change.

Take something ordinary and elevate it to something extraordinary.

It's not about your greatness as an architect, but your compassion

I tell my students, it's got to be warm, dry, and noble.

Theory and practice are not only interwoven with one’s culture but with the responsibility of shaping the environment, of breaking up social complacency, and challenging the power of the status quo.

The Goal is not to have a warm, dry house, but to have a warm, dry house with a spirit to it.