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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

Other quotes by John Ruskin

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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architecture
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John Ruskin
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You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion. – John Ruskin

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Religion
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All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent. – John Ruskin

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The only legitimate artists in England are the architects. – Benjamin Haydon

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Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture. – Arthur Erickson

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And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture. – Arne Jacobsen

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Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall. – Frank Lloyd Wright

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