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A house can have integrity, just like a person,' said Roark, 'and just as seldom.


Ayn Rand


#integrity #people #architecture

We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering,” than to say, “This landscape is ugly.


Simone Weil


#courage #honesty #inspiration #status-quo #truth

Here lies a she sun, and a he moon there; She gives the best light to his sphere; Or each is both, and all, and so They unto one another nothing owe; And yet they do, but are So just and rich in that coin which they pay, That neither would, nor needs forbear, nor stay; Neither desires to be spared nor to spare. They quickly pay their debt, and then Take no acquittances, but pay again; They pay, they give, they lend, and so let fall No such occasion to be liberal. More truth, more courage in these two do shine, Than all thy turtles have and sparrows, Valentine.


John Donne


#bridegroom #love #passion #sexuality #wedding

She missed the built environment of New York City. It was only in an urban landscape, amid straight lines and architecture, that she could situate herself in human time and history. She missed people. She missed human intrigue, drama and power struggles. She needed her own species, not to talk to, necessarily, but just to be among, as a bystander in a crowd or an anonymous witness.


Ruth Ozeki


#humanity #new-york-city #society #architecture

Because when you love something, you want to do it all the time, even if no one is paying you for it. At least that's how I felt about drawing.


Meg Cabot


#art #generosity #samantha #art

Viewed from a certain distance and under good light, even an ugly city can look like the promised land.


Leon Krier


#community #architecture

It is my trade," he said. "I work for the bean family, and every day there are deaths among the beans, mostly from thirst. They shrivel and die, they go blind in their one black eye, and I put them in one of these tiny coffins. Beans, you know, are beautifully shaped, like a new church, like modern architecture, like a planned city


Janet Frame


#bean #beans #church #city #coffin

That’s Manhattan today—all the money goes up top, while the infrastructure wastes away from neglect. The famous skyline is a cheap trick now, a sleight-of-hand to draw your eye from the truth, as illusory as a bodybuilder with osteoporosis.


Andrew Vachss


#city-planning #new-york-city #architecture

The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity.


William Robertson Smith


#destroys #dissolution #nation #national #religion

The rigidity of a bottle's form does not affect the fluidity of the liquid it contains.


Leon Krier


#community #architecture