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The architect
represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian condition:
here it is the mighty act of will, the will which moves
mountains, the intoxication of the strong will, which
demands artistic expression. The most powerful men have
always inspired the architects; the architect has always
been influenced by power.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
1844-1900, German Philosopher
No
architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.
-- John Ruskin
1819-1900, British Critic,
Social Theorist
When we build,
let us think that we build for ever.
-- John Ruskin
1819-1900, British Critic,
Social Theorist
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.
-- John Ruskin
1819-1900, British Critic,
Social Theorist
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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
1819-1900, British Critic,
Social Theorist
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
1819-1900, British Critic,
Social Theorist
Architecture
is petrified music.
-- Felix E. Schelling
1858-1945, American Educator
Believe me,
that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before
the days of builders.
-- Seneca
4 B.C. – 65 A.D.,
Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher
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