| "All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks." »Gilbert Keith Chesterton |
| "In short, the building becomes a theatrical demonstration of its functional ideal. In this romanticism, High-Tech architecture is, of course, no different in spirit-if totally different in form-from all the romantic architecture of the past." »Dan Cruickshank |
| "This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire." »Voltaire |
| "I am the Roman Emperor, and am above grammar." »Emperor Sigismund |
| "Would that the Roman people had a single neck to cut off their head." »Caligula |
| "Programming graphics in X is like finding the square root of PI using Roman numerals." »Henry Spencer |
| "architecture, n The art of how to waste space." »Philip Johnson |
| "I call architecture frozen music." »Johann von Goethe |
| "Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself." »Samuel Butler |
| "The job of buildings is to improve human relations architecture must ease them, not make them worse." »Ralph Erskine |
| "The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people as equally true by the philosopher, as equally false and by the magistrate, as equally useful." »Edward Gibbon |
| "Heredity is a strong factor, even in architecture. Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma." »E. B. White |
| "In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions Commodity, Firmness and Delight." »Henry Watton |
| "The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure." »Grayson Kirk |
| "Since it architecture is music in space, as it were a frozen music." »Friedrich von Schelling |
| "When you are at Rome live in the Roman style when you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere." »Saint Ambrose |
| "Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall." »Frank Lloyd Wright |
| "The only people for me are the mad ones. The ones who are mad to love, mad to talk, mad to be saved the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars." »Jack Kerouac |
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