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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
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“There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.”— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“Whatever good things we build end up building us.”— Jim Rohn
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“They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.”— Henry David Thoreau
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“I call architecture frozen music.”— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.”— Ayn Rand
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“When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan.”— Tadao Ando
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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.”— Lord Byron
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“Architecture is politics.”— Mitchell Kapor
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“All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.”— Philip Johnson
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“Architecture in general is frozen music.”— Friedrich von Schelling
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“Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.”— Coco Chanel
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“Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.”— Antonio Gaudi
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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
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“Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.”— Victor Hugo
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“A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.”— Ayn Rand
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“All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.”— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.”— Thomas Fuller
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“We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us.”— Winston Churchill
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“My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness.”— Thom Mayne
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“Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.”— Ernest Hemingway
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“The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.”— Voltaire
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“Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.”— Ernest Hemingway
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“The higher the building the lower the morals.”— Noel Coward
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“Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.”— Alvar Aalto