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" I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody. "

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" There is a moral dimension, for me, in anything that's any good. "

" I don't believe in morality in architecture. "

" When I graduated from high school, I thought I wanted to make science fiction movies, so I applied to film school, but I couldn't get in. A professor told me I should try architecture instead. "

" Just as it takes time for a speck of fish spawn to develop into a fully grown fish, so, too, we need time for everything that develops and crystallizes in the world of ideas. Architecture demands more of this time than other creative work. "

" Church architecture describes visually the idea of the sacred, which is a fundamental need of man. "

" It's very important to work myself physically as hard as I can. "

" There is still a real need for good quality architecture, not paper architecture, but the real stuff. "

" Quebec City is the most European of any city in North America; they speak French all the time. There is a part of town called Old Quebec which is really like being in France. The architecture is just gorgeous, food, shopping. I'd say Quebec City is the most beautiful city in North America I've seen. "

" In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings and speak its own language. "

" Dance is the most fundamental of all art forms. "

" It is good to learn from the ancients. I'm a bit of an ancient myself. They had a lot of time to think about architecture and landscape. "

" Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children. That is simply good politics. he will not understand what you have to say about architecture most of the time. "

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

" The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government. "

Milton Friedman

" Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science. "

" A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body. "

" I initially thought I would be an architect, maybe. So I went to architecture camp and quickly learned that I did not want to be an architect. I was like, 'No. This is not for me.' "

Robin Lord Taylor

" All real education is the architecture of the soul. "

William Bennett

" I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I haven't wanted it to be excellent. "

" Architecture adds dimensions to my life that would be impossible to acquire if I retired. The beautiful thing about architecture is that every project is brand new. I am forced to renew myself with every project. Isn't that wonderful? "

" To me it was fascinating, the idea of going to university and studying a subject - architecture - that I had already faced in building some small houses. "

" Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,' there is something arresting in a setting... the building behind the Cathedral. "

" I am but an architectural composer. "

Alexander Jackson Davis

" It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology. "

" If you look at any leaf on any tree branch, it's similar to but not exactly a repetition of the previous branch. So the new science of complexity or showing how an architecture can be produced just as quickly, cheaply and efficiently by using computer production methods to get the slight variation, the self-similarity. "

" The Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio comes from afar. Our land has a millennial history of emigrations: master masons, architects, builders, decorators, plasterers, artists from the world of building. "

" So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent. "

Minoru Yamasaki

" Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches. "

" Architecture is particularly difficult for women; there's no reason for it to be. I don't want to blame men or society, but I think it was for a long time, the clients were men, the building industry is all male. "

" The ballet needs to tell its own story in such a way it can be received without having to be translated into language. "

" I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet. "