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Results of search for Quote or Author: architecture - Page 1 of 1
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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.: Philip Johnson (1906 - 2005)
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.: Elvis Costello (1954 - ), Interview in Musician magazine, October 1983

Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.: Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
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Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.: John Ruskin (1819 - 1900), The Seven Lamps of Architecture, 1849
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.: John Adams (1735 - 1826)

Results from Classic Quotes:

Architecture is one part science, one part craft and two parts art.: David Rutten

Results from Cole's Quotables:

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.: Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), The Method of Nature (1841)

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