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“Less is more, in prose as in architecture.”

Art Philosophy History Architecture Prose Less Is More

Book:WRITING WELL

Source: WRITING WELL

“Among the innumerable monuments of architecture constructed by the Romans, how many have escaped the notice of history, how few have resisted the ravages of time and barbarism! And yet even the majestic ruins that are still scattered over Italy and the provinces, would be sufficient to prove that those countries were once the seat of a polite and powerful empire.”

Stills Country Would Be Powerful History Prove Architecture Ruins Sufficient Seats Empires Over It Polite Monument Provinces Roman Empire Barbarism Majestic

Book:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.”

Fighting History Built Ancient Architecture Beast Masterpiece Wild Beasts Gothic Architecture

Author:Voltaire

“The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.”

“Great architecture has only two natural enemies: water and stupid men.”

Men Two Water Natural Enemy History Stupid Architecture Stupid Men Natural Enemies

Author:Richard Nickel

“A building does not have to be an important work of architecture to become a first-rate landmark. Landmarks are not created by architects. They are fashioned by those who encounter them after they are built. The essential feature of a landmark is not its design, but the place it holds in a city's memory. Compared to the place it occupies in social history, a landmark's artistic qualities are incidental.”

“For many parts of Nature can neither be invented with sufficient subtlety, nor demonstrated with sufficient perspicuity, nor accommodated unto use with sufficient dexterity, without the aid and intervening of the mathematics, of which sort are perspective, music, astronomy, cosmography, architecture, engineery, and divers others.”

Use Science Nature History Perspective Diversity Mathematics Architecture Aids Astronomy Sufficient Subtlety Intervening Dexterity

Book:Bacon's Advancement of Learning and the New Atlantis

Source: Bacon's Advancement of Learning and the New Atlantis

“We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears!”

Writing May Remember Nations History Cold Bears Worship Architecture Imagery Marble Lifeless

Book:The seven lamps of architecture

Source: The seven lamps of architecture