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“A tranquil city of good laws, fine architecture, and clean streets is like a classroom of obedient dullards, or a field of gelded bulls - whereas a city of anarchy is a city of promise”

Mark Helprin quotes (American Novelist, b.1947)

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“Architecture is the art of how to waste space.”

Philip Johnson quotes

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“Architecture begins where engineering ends.”

Walter Gropius quotes (German Architect, 1883-1969)

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“Architecture is a social act and the material theater of human activity.”

Spiro Kostof quotes

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“I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes (German Playwright, Poet, Novelist and Dramatist. 1749-1832)

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“Anarchism, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion; the liberation of the human body from the dominion of property; liberation from the shackles and restraint of government.”

Emma Goldman quotes (Lithuanian born American International anarchist who conducted leftist activities in the United States from about 1890 to 1917. 1869-1940)

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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 quotes (French romantic Poet, Novelist and Dramatist, 1802-1885)

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“Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.”

Julia Morgan quotes

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“Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real.”

Frank Stella quotes

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“Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.”

Frank Gehry quotes

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“Architecture is the design of space, both interior and exterior. So it's much more closely related to dance than it is to painting or sculpture.”

Bruce Graham quotes

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