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"The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture."
"Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest."
"Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community."
"After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings."
"Solomon's temple also was designed to increase the attractiveness of the city of his residence."
"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture."
"Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall."
"Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul."
"Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise."
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"Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things."
"When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water... If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit."
"Don't look for obscure formulas or mystery in my work. It is pure joy that I offer you. Look at my sculptures until you see them. Those closest to God have seen them."
"Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them."
"They are imbeciles who call my work abstract. That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things."
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