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"The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish."
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"We shape our buildings, thereafter they shape us."
"There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds."
"Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book."
"If you put enough closets together, you have enough space for a room. If you put enough rooms together, you have enough room for a house. If you put enough houses together, you have space for a town, then a city, then a nation, then a world."
"I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead."
"All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks."
"It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect."
"Modern architecture predominately specializes in designing what are essentially dimly lit caves."
"Trying to describe something musical is like dancing to architecture, it's really difficult."
"You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best."
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"Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies."
"I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of dead money that went sliding off into the sea."
"New York is something awful, something monstrous. I like to walk the streets, lost, but I recognize that New York is the world's greatest lie. New York is Senegal with machines."
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them."
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