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"Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues."
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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."
"I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention."
"Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before."
"The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth."
"I have no requirements for a style of architecture."
"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."
"Modern architecture predominately specializes in designing what are essentially dimly lit caves."
"Rather than wait to see what the day or future holds, why not design and plan the future you want to experience?"
"The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams."
"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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"Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future."
"Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning."
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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."
"The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye."
"Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody's head."
"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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