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Quotations
Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music. — Wolfgang Goethe, 1749-1832, German poet & philosopher 6 likes | |
The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture for wild beasts to fight in. — Voltaire, 1694-1778, French philosopher & writer 6 likes | |
A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom. — Ayn Rand, 1905-1982, American writer & philosopher 4 likes | |
There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds. — G. K. Chesterton, 1874-1936, English writer & critic 4 likes | |
Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building. — Thomas Fuller, 1608-1661, English thinker 4 likes | |
The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772-1834, English poet & philosopher 3 likes | |
We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 3 likes | |
Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture. — Ernest Hemingway, 1899-1961, American writer, Nobel 1954 3 likes | |
They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar. — Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862, American writer 3 likes | |
Literature is painting, architecture, and music. — Yevgeni Zamyatin, 1884-1937, Russian writer 2 likes | |
Fashion is architecture. It is a matter of proportions. |
Movie Quotes
If you build it, he will come. — from the film Field of Dreams (1989) 3 likes |