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God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech. ↗

— Quintilian

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Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower. ↗

— Richard Rogers

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The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

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It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it. ↗

— Edvard Munch

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Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture. ↗

— Quincy Jones

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The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

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Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

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I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

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

— Oscar Niemeyer

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