bricklayer
Noun
Meaning
One whose occupation is to build with bricks.
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My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.
I felt that everything is beautiful, but that which man tries intentionally to make beautiful; that the work of an ordinary bricklayer is more valid than the artwork of all but a very few artists.
Only when architect, bricklayer and tenant are a unity, or one and the same person, can we speak of architecture. Everything else is not architecture, but a criminal act which has taken on form.
Writing is the hardest work in the world. I have been a bricklayer and a truck driver, and I tell you – as if you haven't been told a million times ALREADY – that writing is harder. Lonelier. And nobler and more enriching.
If I had been a bricklayer I'd still have been a journeyman.
I look upon myself as a musical bricklayer with architectural aspirations.