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" Architecture is inhabited sculpture. "

Constantin Brancusi

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" I absorbed as many Impressionist paintings as I could, in Parisian museums and in many museums in the United States and in books, looking for clues to architecture, clothing, settings. "

" Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts. "

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" To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that. "