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"Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues."
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"Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits."
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"A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of art seen in such spaces seem to be going through a kind of esthetic convalescence."
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"Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues."
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"I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation."
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"The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness."
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"Parks are idealizations of nature, but nature in fact is not a condition of the ideal."
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"When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us."
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"Nature is never finished."
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"Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development."
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"History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy."
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"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."
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"Rather than wait to see what the day or future holds, why not design and plan the future you want to experience?"
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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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"All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks."
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"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."
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"Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity."
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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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"The White House was designed by Hoban a noted Irish-American architect and I have no doubt that he believed by incorporating several features of the Dublin style he would make it more homelike for any President of Irish descent. It was a long wait but I appreciate his efforts."
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