Quote by John Ruskin
It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore a

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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The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think its magical. – Maya Lin

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