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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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• 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.

  G. K. Chesterton

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• Architecture aims at Eternity.

  Christopher Wren

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• The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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• There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.

  Edwin Lutyens

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• I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.

  Catherine Deneuve

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• The whole purpose of those attacks was to drive those contractors out. Lots of them had to leave. They were terrified.

  Wayne White

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• Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved.

  Richard Meier

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• An important work of architecture will create polemics.

  Richard Meier

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• Architecture begins where engineering ends.

  Walter Gropius

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

  Ernest Dimnet

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• Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

  Ernest Hemingway

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• People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that’s both liberating and alarming.

  Rem Koolhaas

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• The job of buildings is to improve human relations: architecture must ease them, not make them worse.

  Ralph Erskine

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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

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• In speculative buildings, which is most of our business, there are really only three chances to make architecture: the lobby or entrance sequence, the top and the elevator cab.

  Chao-Ming Wu

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• Why can’t we have those curves and arches that express feeling in design? What is wrong with them? Why has everything got to be vertical, straight, unbending, only at right angles – and functional?

  Charles, Prince of Wales

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• You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe – when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.

  Charles, Prince of Wales

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• Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

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• No house should ever be on a hill, or on anything. It should be of the hill. Hill and house should live together, each the happier for the other.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

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