Quotes by Ada Louise Huxtable

Ada Louise Huxtable

American architecture critic and writer

Lived from: 1921 - 2013

Category: Media | Writers (Contemporary)

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  • A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.
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  • An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful.
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  • Every creative act draws on the past whether it pretends to or not. It draws on what it knows. There is no such thing, really, as a creative act in a vacuum.
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  • Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.
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  • Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world.
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  • The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
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  • Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.
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What are the most famous quotes from Ada Louise Huxtable?

The two most famous quotes from Ada Louise Huxtable are:

  • "A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination."
  • "An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful."

When did Ada Louise Huxtable live?

Ada Louise Huxtable was born in 1921 and died in the year 2013.