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The architect had not stopped to bother about columns and porticos, proportions or interiors, or any limitation upon the epic he sought to materialize; he had simply made a servant of Nature - art can go no further. ↗

— Lew Wallace

#art #nature #architecture

We depend on our surroundings obliquely to embody the moods and ideas we respect and then to remind us of them. We look to our buildings to hold us, like a kind of psychological mould, to a helpful vision of ourselves. We arrange around us material forms which communicate to us what we need — but are at constant risk of forgetting what we need — within. We turn to wallpaper, benches, paintings and streets to staunch the disappearance of our true selves. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#home #identity #architecture

A great building must begin with the immeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed, and in the end must be unmeasured. ↗

— Louis I. Kahn

#architecture

Tintinnabulation is an area I sometimes wander into when I am searching for answers - in my life, my music, my work. In my dark hours, I have the certain feeling that everything outside this one thing has no meaning. ↗

— Arvo Part

#answers #area #certain #certain feeling #dark

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#nothing #rest #search #sincere #truth

Sadly, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal in this country and has been going on at universities and research facilities for years. ↗

— Mike Pence

#been #cell #cell research #completely #country

At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture. ↗

— Martin Puryear

#art #building #certain #certain point #decided

I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build. ↗