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"Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul."
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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."
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"I call architecture frozen music."
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"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."
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"All but universally, human architecture values front elevations over back entrances, public spaces over private. Danny Jessup says that this aspect of architecture is also a reflection of human nature, that most people care more about their appearance than they do about their souls."
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"We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward."
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"There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds."
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"The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable."
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"It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect."
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"In architecture the pride of man his triumph over gravitation his will to power assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms."
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"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."
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"All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy."
Philosophy
"Ideas are the root of creation."
Ideas
"Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room."
Habit
"A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers."
Consciousness
"The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present."
History
"Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it."
People
"Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul."
Architecture
"Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves."
Children
"Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking."
Education
"The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things."
Happiness
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