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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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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
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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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My buildings dont speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness. – Thom Mayne

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Poetry is not only dream and vision it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before. – Audre Lorde

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Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul. – Ernest Dimnet

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The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in. – Voltaire

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