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🇺🇸Thomas Jefferson

Politics

"The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them."

"The false interpreters of nature declare that quicksilver is the common seed of every metal, not remembering that nature varies the seed according to the variety of the things she desires to produce in the world."

"I often think what I’m saying is for the people who never had a chance to be heard."

217 quotes

John Ruskin

Art

Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

1819–1900

"Punishment is the last and least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime."

95 quotes

🇺🇸Buckminster Fuller

Philosophy

high-tech architecture

1895–1983

"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."

"Jerusalem is all about a very special relationship between the ground and the sky. This work attempts to bring the two together."

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🇺🇸Philip Johnson

Art

postmodern architecture

1906–2005

"I like Houston. It's the last great 19th-century city. Houston has a spirit about it that is truly American, an optimism. People there aren't afraid to try something new."

"very structure has a resistant function to fulfill... to ensure ...the static equilibrium of the structure for a long period of time."

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🇺🇸Addison Mizner

Art

Spanish Colonial Revival architecture

1872–1933

"The son-of-a-bitch would shoot me just to make book on which way I'd fall!"

"Claus Pavels: Autobiographi, s. 58. Christiania: J. W. Cappelens Forlag, 1866."

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🇬🇧William Thomas Beckford

"The city is no longer. We can leave the theatre now."

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🇺🇸John Singer Sargent

Art

Impressionism

1856–1925

"Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend."

"By making this chair five times as expensive, three times heavier, half as comfortable, and only a fraction as beautiful, an architect can make a good name for himself."

"Man's chief purpose...is the creation and preservation of values: that is what gives meaning to our civilization, and the participation in this is what gives significance, ultimately, to the individual human life."

"Ethical individualism... is spiritualized theory of evolution carried over into moral life."

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🇬🇧Charles Rennie Mackintosh

Art

Arts and Crafts movement

"I do not want art for a few, any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few."

"A hundred times I have thought: New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times: it is a beautiful catastrophe."

"If you can see it you can hit it, and if you can hit it you can hole it"

"The seventh Definition. The Golden Rule, or Rule of three, is that by which to three tearmes given, the fourth proportionall tearme is found."

Karl Friedrich Schinkel

Art

Greek Revival architecture

1781–1841

"Indifference to the fine arts comes close to barbarism."

"Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together."

"170 images of El Greco's paintings, on Wikiart"

"I am for richness of meaning rather than clarity of meaning; for the implicit function as well as the explicit function."

"Society is basically not interested in art. Art has a purpose of its own."

"When I got my first commission after Habitat, for a few weeks I couldn't draw."

"If we think about things having multiple lives, cradle to cradle, we could design things that can go back to either nature or back to industry forever."

"Burn shavings and splinters of pitch pine, and when they turn to charcoal, put them out, and pound them into mortar with size. This will make a pretty black for fresco painting."

"An ugly woman with a gun is a terrible thing."

"If one was told that monkeys had built it, one could only say, 'What wonderful monkeys — they must be shot in case they do it again.'"

"You merely had an affair with me, to be exact, and therefore no right to prevent me from another affair.'"

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🇺🇸Christopher Alexander

Philosophy

1936–2022

"In my life as an architect, I found that the single thing which inhibits young professionals, new students most severely, is their acceptance of standards that are too low."

"Online text of Gertrude Jekyll's Colour schemes for the flower garden"

"A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth."

"The 'Grey Pictures' were done at a time when there were monochrome paintings everywhere. I painted them nonetheless.. .Not Kelly, but Bob Ryman, Brice Marden, Alan Charlton, Yves Klein and many others."

"We inhabit the cities of the dead and their ideas inhabit us every day."

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