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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Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book. – John Ruskin

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Books
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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth. – John Ruskin

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Art
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architecture
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Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I dont want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist. – Maya Lin

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architecture

Liquid architecture. Its like jazz – you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think its a way of – for me, its a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city. – Frank Gehry

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I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach? – Philip Johnson

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architecture

When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves, as in architecture or the plastic arts. – Juan Goytisolo

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architecture

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Only bad golfers are lucky. Theyre the ones bouncing balls off trees, curbs, turtles and cars. Good golfers have bad luck. When you hit the ball straight, a funny bounce is bound to be unlucky. – Lee Trevino

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