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All real education is the architecture of the soul. (Quote by - William J Bennett)

Architecture is inhabited sculpture. (Quote by - Constantin Brancusi)

An architect is the drawer of dreams (Quote by - Grace McGarvie)

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization. (Quote by - Frank Lloyd Wright)

The architect must not only understand drawing, but music. (Quote by - Vitruvius Pollio)

A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart. (Quote by - Frank Lloyd Wright)

I was Planning to Go into Architecture. But when I arrived [to sign up for courses] Architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it. So I signed up for acting instead. (Quote by - Tom Selleck)

Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, that the sight of them may contribute to his mental health, power, and pleasure. (Quote by - John Ruskin)

Architecture is a social act and the material theater of human activity. (Quote by - Spiro Kostof)

Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)

A man who could build a church, as one may say, by squinting at a sheet of paper. (Quote by - Charles Dickens)

Architecture is petrified music. (Quote by - Felix E. Schelling)

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions. (Quote by - Coco Chanel)

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul. (Quote by - Ernest Dimnet)

There are a great many things about architecture that are hidden from the untrained eye. (Quote by - Frank Gehry)

No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung, Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung. Majestic silence. (Quote by - Bishop Reginald Heber)

Grandeur . . . consists in form, and not in size: and to the eye of the philosopher, the curve drawn on a paper two inches long, is just as magnificent, just as symbolic of divine mysteries and melodies, as when embodied in the span of some cathedral roof. (Quote by - Charles Kingsley)

This building is like a book. Its architecture is the binding, its text is in the glass and sculpture. (Quote by - Malcolm Miller)

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light. (Quote by - Le Corbusier)

Architecture is the art of how to waste space. (Quote by - Philip Johnson)

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress. (Quote by - Lord Byron)

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds. (Quote by - Gilbert Keith Chesterton)

Architecture is music in space, as it were a frozen music (Quote by - Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling)

Rich windows that exclude the light, And passages that lead to nothing. (Quote by - Thomas Gray)

Architecture is the work of nations. (Quote by - John Ruskin)

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