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Quote by John Ruskin
No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple. - John Rusk

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple. – John Ruskin

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Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition. – John Ruskin

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We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it. – John Ruskin

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Im often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. Thats impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more. – Thom Mayne

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Make big plans aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die. – Daniel Burnham

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I dont believe in morality in architecture. – Michael Graves

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Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts. – Marcus V. Pollio

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