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Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
The job of the architect becomes more difficult in this secular age. Where once he had a god to extol, he now has humans like himself; where once he had "he," he now has "she" and "they."
We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise the client to plant vines.
Architecture is inhabited sculpture.
By early 1943, the Pentagon was complete-a building big enough to house forty thousand people and all their accoutrements, the largest building in the world, conceived, funded, designed and constructed in a little more than a year. And on the day it was finished, it was already too small.
We shape our buildings: thereafter they shape us.
The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect.
I call architecture "petrified music." Really there is something in this; the tone of mind produced by architecture approaches the effect of music.
No building was safe from the furniture, the pictures, the human beings that it would presently contain.
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Life Quote
Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.
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Inspirational Quote
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Success Quote
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
Happiness Quote
Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
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