Quotes with architecture

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  • John Ruskin No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Alvar Aalto Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.
    Alvar Aalto
    Finnish architect and designer (1898 - 1976)
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  • Clark Kenneth Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.
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  • Audre Lorde Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
    Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 38
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Ernest Hemingway Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Arthur Erickson Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Arthur Erickson Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Steve Martin Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
    Steve Martin
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer and musician (1945 - )
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  • Bernard Tschumi The general public will almost always stand behind the traditionalists. In the public eye, architecture is about comfort, about shelter, about bricks and mortar.
    Bernard Tschumi
    French-Swiss architect, writer, and educator (1944 - )
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  • Cameron Sinclair The Internet has created an incredible democratization of the architecture industry.
    Cameron Sinclair
    British architect and writer (1973 - )
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  • Lord Shaftesbury The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.
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  • Carl Sagan The neurochemistry of the brain is astonishingly busy, the circuitry of a machine more wonderful than any devised by humans. But there is no evidence that its functioning is due to anything more than the 1014 neural connections that build an elegant architecture of consciousness.
    Cosmos (1980)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Arthur Erickson The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Salvador Dali The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
    Salvador Dali
    Spanish painter (1904 - 1989)
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  • Bernard Tschumi The ultimate pleasure of architecture lies in the most forbidden parts of the architectural act, where limits are perverted and prohibitions are transgressed.
    Bernard Tschumi
    French-Swiss architect, writer, and educator (1944 - )
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  • Arthur Erickson The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Arthur Erickson Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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