Dominic - Architecture

Famous quotes containing the word architecture:

“Defaced ruins of architecture and statuary, like the wrinkles of decrepitude of a once beautiful woman, only make one regret that one did not see them when they were enchanting.”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

“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.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)