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Architecture Quotes by John Ruskin
- No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
- Architecture is the work of nations
- Don't just look at buildings ... watch them.
- 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,…
- We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
- It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
- No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only…
- No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.
- An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by…
- It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I…
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