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Architecture Quotes 01

31 October 2005 | Category: Quotes

Of all the arts in the world, none is more fundamental to the way we live than architecture. It is a mirror of our own time and of times gone by, a diary that is written in mud and timber, in brick and stone, in iron and steel, in concrete and glass. Our homes, our public buildings and cities reflect what we are, what we once were – and what we hope to become.

- Trevor Howells

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A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

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I don’t think of form as a kind of architecture. The architecture is the result of the forming. It is the kinesthetic and visual sense of position and wholeness that puts the thing into the realm of art.

- Roy Lichtenstein

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We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

- Winston Churchill

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All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

- G.K. Chesterton

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