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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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“This building is like a book. Its architecture is the binding, its text is in the glass and sculpture.”
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“Architecture is music in space, as it were a frozen music”
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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 begins where engineering ends.”
Walter Gropius quotes (German Architect, 1883-1969)
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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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“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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“Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.”
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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“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 quotes (English novelist, essayist and critic, 1835-1902)
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“The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government”
Milton Friedman quotes (American Economist, b.1912)
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