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A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.

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Guillaume Apollinaire

WriterFrench1880 · 19th century

4.3 · 20 votes

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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

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

PoetAmerican1807 · 19th century

3.6 · 38 votes

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All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton

PoetBritish1874 · 19th century

4.8 · 31 votes · 115 reads

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All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.

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Frank Lloyd Wright

ArchitectAmerican1867 · 19th century

3.0 · 30 votes · 133 reads

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An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.

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WriterEnglish1819 · 19th century

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Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.

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WriterAmerican1842 · 19th century

4.8 · 37 votes

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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.

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PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

3.7 · 44 votes

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Form ever follows function.

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Louis Henry Sullivan

ArchitectAmerican1856 · 19th century

4.4 · 57 votes · 174 reads

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I don't think of form as a kind of architecture. The architecture is the result of the forming. It is the kinesthetic and visual sense of position and wholeness that puts the thing into the realm of art.

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Robert Louis Stevenson

PoetScottish1850 · 19th century

4.2 · 56 votes · 200 reads

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Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

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Thomas de Quincey

AuthorBritish1785 · 18th century

3.8 · 43 votes

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No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.
John Ruskin
WriterEnglish1819 · 19th century
4.3 · 62 votes · 22 reads
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No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.
John Ruskin
WriterEnglish1819 · 19th century
3.1 · 13 votes · 110 reads
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Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines, but was headlong sent with his industrious crew to build in hell.
John Milton
PoetEnglish1608 · 17th century
3.0 · 47 votes · 169 reads
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The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
PoetBritish1772 · 18th century
4.3 · 55 votes · 41 reads
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The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
Salman Rushdie
NovelistIndian1947 · 20th century
3.4 · 52 votes · 158 reads
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We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears!
John Ruskin
WriterEnglish1819 · 19th century
4.5 · 56 votes · 66 reads
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When we build, let us think that we build for ever.
John Ruskin
WriterEnglish1819 · 19th century
4.0 · 42 votes · 15 reads
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