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“It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have... insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.”
John Ruskin quotes (English Writer and Critic of art, architecture, and society, 1819-1900)

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“Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.”
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“Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real.”
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“Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.”
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“Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.”
Victor Hugo quotes (French romantic Poet, Novelist and Dramatist, 1802-1885)
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“Architecture begins where engineering ends.”
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“This building is like a book. Its architecture is the binding, its text is in the glass and sculpture.”
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“Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.”
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“The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is a war between architecture and painting in which both come out badly maimed.”
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“The architectural profession gave the public 50 years of modern architecture and the public's response has been 10 years of the greatest wave of historical preservation in the history of man.”
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