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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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It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists. – John Ruskin

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An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome. – John Ruskin

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