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Quote by Louis Sullivan
But the buildings identity resided in the ornament. - Louis Sulliv

But the buildings identity resided in the ornament. – Louis Sullivan

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It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled. – John Ruskin

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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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Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over. – Ernest Hemingway

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An architects most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site. – Frank Lloyd Wright

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