"Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches."

Architecture, Beauty, Poetry, Heart

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"Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches."

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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."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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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."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

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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?"

Mensah Oteh, Nigerian Author

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Steven Magee, British Author

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"Nothing - really, absolutely nothing - says more about Victorian Britain and its capacity for brilliance than that the century's most daring and iconic building was entrusted to a gardener."

Bill Bryson, American Writer

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"The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls but in the space within to be lived in."

Lao Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

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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."

John Ruskin, English Writer

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"A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress."

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"It is evident that in the period designated as that of the kings, when Rome commenced her career of conquest, she was, for that time and country, a great and wealthy city."

Time

"Dante himself is open to the suspicion of partiality: it is said, not without apparent ground, that he puts into hell all the enemies of the political cause, which, in his eyes, was that of Italy and God."

God

"The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party."

Sympathy

"No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist can fail to see their aesthetic interest."

History

"There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their work; if machines and the Black Country are ugly, famine would be uglier still."

Work

"Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express."

Art

"As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper."

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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."

"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?"

"Modern architecture predominately specializes in designing what are essentially dimly lit caves."

"We shape our buildings, thereafter they shape us."

"Nothing - really, absolutely nothing - says more about Victorian Britain and its capacity for brilliance than that the century's most daring and iconic building was entrusted to a gardener."

"The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls but in the space within to be lived in."

"It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect."

"A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress."

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"It is evident that in the period designated as that of the kings, when Rome commenced her career of conquest, she was, for that time and country, a great and wealthy city."

"Dante himself is open to the suspicion of partiality: it is said, not without apparent ground, that he puts into hell all the enemies of the political cause, which, in his eyes, was that of Italy and God."

"The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party."

"No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist can fail to see their aesthetic interest."

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"Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express."

"Rome was great in arms, in government, in law."

"Above all nations is humanity."

"The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke."

"As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper."