We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst – you need them both.
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Karl Lagerfeld
What are the dead, anyway, but waves and energy? Light shining from a dead star? That, by the way, is a phrase of Julian's. I remember it from a lecture of his on the Iliad, when Patroklos appears to Achilles in a dream. There is...
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Donna Tartt
The yard was a little centre of regeneration. Here, with keen edges and smooth curves, were forms in the exact likeness of those he had seen abraded and time-eaten on the walls. These were the ideas in modern prose which the lichened colleges presented in...
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Thomas Hardy
Literature is painting, architecture, and music.
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Yevgeny Zamyatin
In the 1970s, while researching in the Library of Congress, I found an obscure history of religious architecture that assumed a fact as if it were common knowledge: the traditional design of most patriarchal buildings of worship imitates the female body. Thus, there is an...
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Gloria Steinem
More Quotes By Bjarke Ingels
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
But one must know where one stands and where the others wish to go.
So lively brisk old fellow don't let age get you down. White hairs or not you can still be a lover.
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him everybody sees them.
