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Quote by John Ruskin
It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most import

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect. – John Ruskin

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There is a working class – strong and happy – among both rich and poor: there is an idle class – weak, wicked, and miserable – among both rich and poor. – John Ruskin

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No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish. – John Ruskin

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Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs. – John Ruskin

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Architecture is the art of how to waste space. – Philip Johnson

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But after the time there Id had it with fashion again, so I left to go to architecture school in a summer course at Harvard, which didnt last very long. – Stephen Sprouse

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The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house. – Thomas Reid

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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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