"A good sketch is better than a long speech."
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"Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music."
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"Architecture is art, nothing else."
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"No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple."
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"The automobile is the greatest catastrophe in the entire history of City architecture."
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"If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture."
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"Architecture is essentially Human; it is the Human spirit manifesting itself. For when a Man builds, there, you've got him; you know exactly what, who and how that Man is."
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"When does a building actually become a built?"
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"Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture."
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"Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it up and we can make models of it, but it can only be experienced as a complete whole."
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"I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser."
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"Marble, I perceive, covers a multitude of sins."
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"Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet."
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"Home is where you hang your head."
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"The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in."
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"All architecture is great architecture after sunset."
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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."
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"When a building is as good as that one, f#*@ the art."
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"The building is a special place because of its architecture; But it's people who make it special by participating in it."
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"A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom."
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