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“Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.”
Le Corbusier Quotes |
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“The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.”
Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes |
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“All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.”
Philip Johnson Quotes |
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“There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk around, and architecture is art you can walk through”
Dan Rice Quotes |
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“Architecture is a social act and the material theater of human activity.”
Spiro Kostof Quotes |
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“Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.”
Coco Chanel Quotes |
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“Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul”
Ernest Dimnet Quotes |
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“An architect is the drawer of dreams”
Grace McGarvie Quotes |
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“Architecture is music in space, as it were a frozen music”
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling Quotes |
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“Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.”
Laurie Anderson Quotes |
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“Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use
be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had.”
Francis Bacon Quotes Source: Essays--Of Building
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“There was King Bradmond's palace,
Was never none richer, the story says:
For all the windows and the walls
Were painted with gold, both towers and halls;
Pillars and doors all were of brass;
Windows of latten were set with glass;
It was so rich in many wise,
That it was like a paradise.”
Sir Bevis of Hamptoun Quotes Source: a manuscript in Caius College
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“For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down
the middle wall of partition between us; . . .”
Bible Quotes Source: Ephesians (ch. II, v. 14)
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“And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made
ready before it was brought thither: so that there was neither
hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it
was in building.”
Bible Quotes Source: I Kings (ch. VI, v. 7)
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“The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of
the corner.”
Bible Quotes Source: Psalms (ch. CXVIII, v. 22)
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“Old houses mended,
Cost little less than new, before they're ended.”
Colley Cibber Quotes Source: Prologue to the Double Gallant (l. 15)
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“Silently as a dream the fabric rose;
No sound of hammer or of saw was there.”
William Cowper Quotes Source: Task (bk. V, l. 144)
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“A man who could build a church, as one may say, by squinting at a
sheet of paper.”
Charles Dickens Quotes Source: The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (vol. II, ch. VI)
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“The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the
insatiable demand of harmony in man. The mountain of granite
blooms into an eternal flower, with the lightness and delicate
finish, as well as the aerial proportions and perspective of
vegetable beauty.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes Source: Essays--Of History
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“Earth proudly wears the Parthenon
As best gem upon her zone.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes Source: The Problem
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“The hand that rounded Peter's dome
And groined the aisles of Christian Rome,
Wrought in a sad sincerity;
Himself from God he could not free;
He builded better than he knew;
The conscious stone to beauty grew.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes Source: The Problem
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“An arch never sleeps.”
James Fergusson Quotes Source: History of Indian and Eastern Architecture (p. 210)
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“Architecture is frozen music.
[Ger., Die Backunst ist eine erstarrte Musik.]”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes Source: Conversation with Eckermann
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“Rich windows that exclude the light,
And passages that lead to nothing.”
Thomas Gray Quotes Source: A Long Story
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“No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung,
Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung.
Majestic silence.”
Bishop Reginald Heber Quotes Source: Palestine (l. 163)
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