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You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on eart

You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at its best. – Ben Nicholson

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If youre into architecture and youre from the West, everything is hors doeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately youre led there. You cant escape it. – Ben Nicholson

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Politics are beautiful. They enable a community to live collectively with one another. Its not about stabbing each other in the back its about enabling people to reach their dreams and pursue happiness. – Ben Nicholson

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At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but Im not so sure for very long. The computer is radicalizing the way we think about our world. – Ben Nicholson

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Every mans work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. – Samuel Butler

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I love a lot of things, and Im pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. Id be an obsessive hairdresser. – Gates McFadden

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

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Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work, like any art. – Thom Mayne

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