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Quote by Ben Nicholson
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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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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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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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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Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being. – Luis Barragan

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I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention. – Michael Graves

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Im often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. Thats impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more. – Thom Mayne

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I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Virtue is insufficient temptation. – George Bernard Shaw

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The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms and to confide in ones self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course. – Michelangelo

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Everyone focuses on the earthly state, but how cool might death be? I believe in spiritual rebirth, and I cant wait to experience that. – Barry Zito

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