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“The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is a war between architecture and painting in which both come out badly maimed.”
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“It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have... insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.”
John Ruskin quotes (English Writer and Critic of art, architecture, and society, 1819-1900)
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“A tranquil city of good laws, fine architecture, and clean streets is like a classroom of obedient dullards, or a field of gelded bulls - whereas a city of anarchy is a city of promise”
Mark Helprin quotes (American Novelist, b.1947)
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“Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself”
Samuel Butler quotes (English novelist, essayist and critic, 1835-1902)
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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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“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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“Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.”
Coco Chanel quotes (French Fashion designer who ruled over Parisian haute couture for almost six decades, 1883-1971)
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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 (American Architect and Writer, the most abundantly creative genius of American architecture. His Prairie style became the basis of 20th century residential design in the United States, 1867-1959)
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“This building is like a book. Its architecture is the binding, its text is in the glass and sculpture.”
Malcolm Miller quotes
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“Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.”
Louis Kahn quotes
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“The architectural profession gave the public 50 years of modern architecture and the public's response has been 10 years of the greatest wave of historical preservation in the history of man.”
George E. Hartman quotes
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