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Voltaire on architecture
Author: Voltaire“The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.” -Voltaire
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Ernest Hemingway on architecture
Author: Ernest Hemingway“Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.” -Ernest Hemingway
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Bob Dylan on architecture
Author: Bob Dylan“I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.” -Bob Dylan
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Milton Friedman on architecture
Author: Milton Friedman“The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.” -Milton Friedman
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Coco Chanel on architecture
Author: Coco Chanel“Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.” -Coco Chanel
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on architecture
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe“I call architecture frozen music.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Henry David Thoreau on architecture
Author: Henry David Thoreau“They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.” -Henry David Thoreau
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Harry von Zell on architecture
Author: Harry von Zell“As a designer, the mission with which we have been charged is simple: providing space at the right cost.” -Harry von Zell
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Alexander Jackson Davis on architecture
Author: Alexander Jackson Davis“I am but an architectural composer.” -Alexander Jackson Davis
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Enid Nemy on architecture
Author: Enid Nemy“Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent, one window not so great.” -Enid Nemy
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Delia Ephron on architecture
Author: Delia Ephron“In Los Angeles, by the time you’re 35, you’re older than most of the buildings.” -Delia Ephron
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John Portman on architecture
Author: John Portman“Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.” -John Portman
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Julia Morgan on architecture
Author: Julia Morgan“My buildings will be my legacy… they will speak for me long after I’m gone.” -Julia Morgan
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Saul Steinberg on architecture
Author: Saul Steinberg“The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.” -Saul Steinberg
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James Rouse on architecture
Author: James Rouse“For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind.” -James Rouse
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Martin Puryear on architecture
Author: Martin Puryear“At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.” -Martin Puryear
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Russell Lynes on architecture
Author: Russell Lynes“The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history.” -Russell Lynes
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Robert A. M. Stern on architecture
Author: Robert A. M. Stern“The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you’re talking about building a house, you’re talking about dreams.” -Robert A. M. Stern
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Jimmy Breslin on architecture
Author: Jimmy Breslin“Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.” -Jimmy Breslin
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John Osborne on architecture
Author: John Osborne“Don’t clap too hard – it’s a very old building.” -John Osborne
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Michael Ende on architecture
Author: Michael Ende“No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical.” -Michael Ende
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Louis Sullivan on architecture
Author: Louis Sullivan“Form follows function.” -Louis Sullivan
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Antonio Gaudi on architecture
Author: Antonio Gaudi“Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.” -Antonio Gaudi
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Donna Karan on architecture
Author: Donna Karan“I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It’s about space and form and it’s something you can share with other people.” -Donna Karan
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Thomas a Kempis on architecture
Author: Thomas a Kempis“The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.” -Thomas a Kempis