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“I call architecture frozen music.”

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Book:Conversations with Goethe in the Last Years of His Life

Source: Conversations with Goethe in the Last Years of His Life

“In the evenings the art of building gave way to that of music, which is architecture, too, though invisible.”

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Book:Memoirs of Hadrian

Source: Memoirs of Hadrian

“The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul.”

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Author:Thomas Moore

“Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.”

“The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.”

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Author:Novalis

“Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do.”

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Author:Elvis Costello

“Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.”

Source: The Way of All Flesh

“Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.”

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Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.”

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Author:Alex Winter

“Since it [architecture] is music in space, as it were a frozen music.”

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Author:Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

“Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic.”