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"Architecture is inhabited sculpture." - Constantin Brancusi, quoted in Themes and Episodes by Igor Stravinsky and Robert Craft

"Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul." - Ernest Dimnet, What We Live By

"The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines." - Frank Lloyd Wright, in New York Times Magazine

"I call architecture frozen music." - JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, quoted in Peter Eckermann's Conversations with Goethe

"Architecture is the art of how to waste space." - PHILIP JOHNSON, quoted in New York Times

"A house is a machine for living in." - LE CORBUSIER, Towards an Architecture

"When we build, let us think that we build for ever." - JOHN RUSKIN, The Seven Lamps of Architecture

"Form ever follows function." - LOUIS HENRI SULLIVAN, in Lippincott's Magazine

"No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other." - FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT, An Autobiography

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