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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."
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"The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics."
"The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls but in the space within to be lived in."
"We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us."
"There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds."
"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."
"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."
"Solomon's temple also was designed to increase the attractiveness of the city of his residence."
"Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts."
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"It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled."
"Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it."
"There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey."
"Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books."
"Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder."
"How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?"
"The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions."
"The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it."
"Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes."
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