"The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture."

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"Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design."

Herbert Simon, American Scientist

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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."

John F. Kennedy, American President

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"An important work of architecture will create polemics."

Richard Meier, American Architect

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"The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history."

Russell Lynes, American Critic

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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 are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward."

Arthur Erickson, Canadian Architect

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"The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government."

Milton Friedman, American Economist

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"I call architecture frozen music."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground tunnels and great art and a whole shadow world that we really don't see."

Dan Brown, American Author

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"Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision."

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"The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents."

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"Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory."

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"There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad."

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"Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design."

"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."

"An important work of architecture will create polemics."

"The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history."

"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 are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward."

"The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in."

"The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government."

"I call architecture frozen music."

"Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground tunnels and great art and a whole shadow world that we really don't see."

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"Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision."

"Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid."

"The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents."

"Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory."

"I don't do drugs. I am drugs."

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"Let my enemies devour each other."

"The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret."

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"The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad."