Architecture Quotes
These are some of the best 'Architecture' quotations and sayings.
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A Gothic church is a petrified religion.
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Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, are merely shadows cast by outward things on stone or canvas, having in themselves no separate existence. Architecture, existing in itself, and not in seeming a something it is not, surpasses them as substance shadow.
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Architecture in general is frozen music.
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Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, that the sight of them may contribute to his mental health, power, and pleasure.
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Greek architecture is the flowering of geometry.
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Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had.
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I call architecture frozen music.
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If cities were built by the sound of music, then some edifices would appear to be constructed by grave, solemn tones, and others to have danced forth to light fantastic airs.
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Old houses mended, Cost little less than new before they're ended.
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The architecture of a nation is great only when it is as universal and established as its language, and when provinncial differences are nothing more than so many dialects.
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