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Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art.


Adolf Loos


#art #arts #belongs #common #does

The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul.


Thomas More


#soul #architecture

Bad architecture is in the end as much a failure of psychology as of design. It is an example expressed through materials of the same tendencies which in other domains will lead us to marry the wrong people, choose inappropriate jobs and book unsuccessful holidays: the tendency not to understand who we are and what will satisfy us.


Alain de Botton


#architecture

Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.


Jimmy Breslin


#architects #designed #hands #honorable #intentions

The British political system and the whole clapped out Westminster architecture, and the language that we use about politics, it's completely unsustainable. You either decide to be part of that transition to do something different. Or you cling to old certainties.


Nick Clegg


#architecture #british #certainties #cling #completely

I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see.


Roger Waters


#architecture #as far as #been #could #far

I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.


Alex Winter


#architecture #everywhere #hits #i #lot

I don't believe in morality in architecture.


Michael Graves


#believe #i #morality

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.


Ernest Hemingway


#baroque #decoration #interior #over #prose

Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.


Ernest Hemingway


#brown #built #clock #country #cuckoo






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