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Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art hab

Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues. – Robert Smithson

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When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us. – Robert Smithson

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gardening
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Robert Smithson
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Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future. – Robert Smithson

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Future
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Robert Smithson
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My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we – architects – can effect the quality of life of the people. – Richard Rogers

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I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach? – Philip Johnson

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architecture

Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture. – Tadao Ando

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architecture

Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved. – Richard Meier

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Forget the past – the future will give you plenty to worry about. – George Allen, Sr.

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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul. – Alexander Pope

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Sometimes overturning brutal regimes takes time and costs lives. I wish it werent so. I really, really do. – Hillary Clinton

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From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history. – Umberto Eco

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