"The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic……" — Stephen Gardiner
"The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally."
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47 Quotes by Stephen Gardiner
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Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.
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The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden
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The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world.
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What people want, above all, is order.
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Good buildings come from good people, ad all problems are solved by good design.
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Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the…
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It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings.
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The chief concern of the French Impressionists was the discovery of balance between light and dark.
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Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.
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The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the…
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Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads.
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The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.
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At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics…
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No book includes the entire world. It's limited. And so it doesn't seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to…
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We're dabbling in eugenics all the time, breeding ideal crops to replace less aesthetic or nutritious or hardy varieties; leveling…
— Diane Ackerman
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I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.
— J. G. Ballard
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I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A…
— J. G. Ballard
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I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one.
— Josef Albers
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Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable…
— William S. Burroughs
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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
— A. S. Byatt
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I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership, which include attention to aesthetics and the environment, nurturing, affection, intuition…
— Deepak Chopra
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I think decor says a lot about someone's social position, their taste, their sensibility, their work - and also about…
— Pedro Almodovar
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Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic…
— Richard Courant
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A designer is a planner with an aesthetic sense.
— Bruno Munari
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