Stalinist Architecture/attempts To Decrease Costs 1948-1955

Famous quotes containing the words architecture, attempts, decrease and/or costs:

    “No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.”
    —John Ruskin (1819–1900)

    “Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak.... They are simply cheques that men draw on a bank where they have no account.”
    —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

    “The increase in wisdom can be measured precisely by the decrease in bile.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “That which costs little is less valued.”
    —Miguel De Cervantes (1547–1616)