Quote by Havelock Ellis
The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that expre

The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person and in the end they unite. – Havelock Ellis

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Pain and death are a part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself. – Havelock Ellis

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A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray. – Havelock Ellis

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It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously have traced man back to the Elephant or the Lion or the Antelope, how much ridicule and prejudice would have been spared to the doctrine of Evolution. – Havelock Ellis

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We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us. – Winston Churchill

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All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although its difficult to quantify the attachment. – Tadao Ando

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So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent. – Minoru Yamasaki

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If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architects task – his most difficult task – is always that of selecting. – Arne Jacobsen

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