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architecture & design quotes. send your favorites! & your thoughts.

Joined May 2009
RT @AndrewMaynard: "sustainability is like teenage sex. everybody says they're doing it, few people actually ..doing it." - anonymous
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“architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.” - julia morgan
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“architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.” - arne jacobsen
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"an artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world." - george santayana
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i've been gone for so long! sorry for my absence, quotes coming soon...
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"good architecture lets nature in." - mario pei
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"when a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package." - john ruskin
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"no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect." - john ruskin
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"a doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines." - frank lloyd wright
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“vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.” - arthur erickson
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Replying to @missmies_
@nikkifwd located in philly, has some interesting architecture if you know where to look. as for my favorites? i ADORE chicago & italy.
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@guseyk have always wanted to head down that way, i know a few who live there and love it.
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"limitations live only in our minds. but if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless." - jamie paolinetti
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Replying to @missmies_
@nikkifwd both places i've never been, but have always wanted to visit! especially california.
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@guseyk both are pretty cool, would love to travel to london again.
what, as far as architecture goes, is your favorite city?
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"the magic of candlelight, the most subtle of all, is an exquisite addition to any and all lighting." - robert kime
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it makes me happy to see RT's, thanks everybody!
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“architecture is the art of how to waste space.” - philip johnson
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“architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. there it begins.” - ludwig mies van der rohe
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