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“Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul”

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

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“Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, are merely shadows cast by outward things on stone or canvas, having in themselves no separate existence. Architecture, existing in itself, and not in seeming a something it is not, surpasses them as substance shadow.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow quotes (the most popular American Poet in the 19th century, 1807-1882)

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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.”

John Ruskin quotes (English Writer and Critic of art, architecture, and society, 1819-1900)

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“The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.”

Thomas Reid quotes

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“Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.”

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe quotes (German born American Architect. 1886-1969)

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“Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.”

Laurie Anderson quotes

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“Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.”

Louis Kahn quotes

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“There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.”

G. K. Chesterton quotes (English born Gabonese Critic, Essayist, Novelist and Poet, 1874-1936)

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