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"Gregorian chant, Romanesque architecture, the Iliad , the invention of geometry were not, for the people through whom they were brought into being and made available to us, occasions for the manifestation of personality."
"I would like to attend college in the future when I have time. I have always been interested in architecture, so perhaps I would pursue a degree in that or business."
"I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music."
"Architecture is frozen music. [Ger., Die Backunst ist eine erstarrte Musik.]"
"Architecture is not a profession, it is a discipline."
"The history of art is the history of revivals."
"The genius of architecture seems to have shed its maledictions over this land."
"When I see architecture that moves me, I hear music in my inner ear"
"I think Miss Monroe as architecture is extremely good architecture, and she's a very natural actress, and a very good one."
"The more I examine the universe and study the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known that we were coming."
"Architecture is the work of nations"
"No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect."
"Ornamentation is the principal part of architecture, considered as a subject of fine art."
"Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have."
"To sum up the state of architecture in America: ninety percent of the buildings we live in and around aren't architecture. No, that's not right - 98 percent."
"All architects want to live beyond their deaths."
"I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in a Robert Langdon thriller."
"Fore God, you have here a goodly dwelling and a rich."
"Greek architecture is the flowering of geometry."
"Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture."
