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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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"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."
"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 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."
"We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward."
"There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds."
"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."
"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."
"Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building."
"We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us."
"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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"A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it."
"When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence."
"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."
"To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him."
"A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget."
"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."
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