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"A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility between the style and a certain state of mind, it is never the style that triumphs." »William R Allen
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"All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks." »Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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"Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within." »Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Method of Nature (1841)
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"[Of the parralels between the railways and the church] both had their heyday in the mid-nineteenth century; both own a great deal of Gothic-style architecture which is expensive to maintain; both are regularly assailed by critics; and both are firmly convinced that they are the best means of getting man to his ultimate destination." »Reverend W. Awdry (1911 - 1997)
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"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
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"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain." »John Adams
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"If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul." »Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul." »Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"architecture, n The art of how to waste space." »Philip Johnson
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"architecture is the art of how to waste space." »Philip Johnson
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"I call architecture frozen music." »Johann von Goethe
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"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
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"The job of buildings is to improve human relations architecture must ease them, not make them worse." »Ralph Erskine
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"Nineties style isn't." »David Borenstein
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"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
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"Fashion changes, style remains." »Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel
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"If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style." »Quentin Crisp
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"style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn." »Gore Vidal
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"Fashion can be bought. style one must possess." »Edna Woolman Chase
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"We are tied down to a language that makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style." »Tom Stoppard, Rosencranz And Guildenstern Are Dead
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"God is really only another artist, he made the elephat, giraffe and cat. He has no real style but keeps trying new ideas." »Pablo Picasso
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"In character, in manners, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity." »Longfellow
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"Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom." »Don DeLillo
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"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
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"Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect." »Hunter S. Thompson
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"An educated man ... is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style." »Alan Simpson
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"The continued propinquity of another human being cramps the style after a time unless that person is somebody you think you love. Then the burden becomes intolerable at once." »Quentin Crisp
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"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
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"Since it architecture is music in space, as it were a frozen music." »Friedrich von Schelling
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"STRATEGY is; A style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring FUTURE SUCCESS." »Pete Johnson
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