John Ruskin Quotes

In one point of view, Gothic is not only the best, but the only rational architecture, as being that which can fit itself most easily to all services, vulgar or noble.

John Ruskin

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• Gothic

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• Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.

  

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• You don't have to spend much time in Shanghai before you start to get all existential about the meaning of authenticity. Did you know that Shanghai is building nine satellite towns, each designed to mimic the architecture and culture of a different country?

  

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• The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

  

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

  

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• There isn't much room for an outsider point of view in print any more.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• Architecture is a discourse; everything is a discourse. Fashion discourse is actually a micro-discourse, because it's centered around the body. It is the most rapidly developing form of discourse.

  

  Nate Lowman
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• To me, steampunk and urban fantasy are naturally hinged together. And I think that's because I love the early gothic Victorian literature, and both things spring from that movement.

  

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• The Internet has created an incredible democratization of the architecture industry.

  

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• I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet.

  

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• My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture.

  

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• Shirley Jackson's writings are a must for aficionados of the gothic and of good literature.

  

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• You look at the steamboat, the railroad, the car, the airplane - not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world, but they were popularized and extended by it. They were made possible by the financial architecture, the capital intensive operations invented and developed by the Anglo-Americans.

  

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• A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of an authentic democracy.

  

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• There is a lot of bad architecture. What we need more is to look at how our landscape should look in the next decades.

  

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• I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people.

  

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• We need a new health care architecture that will reduce costs, improve outcomes, and protect vulnerable persons.

  

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• When I was 18, I lived in Greenwich Village, New York, for nine months. At that time, I wanted to change the world, not through architecture, but through painting. I lived the artist's life, mingling with poets and writers, and working as a waiter. I was intrigued by the aliveness of the city.

  

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• My dad is a carpenter, a joiner, and I used to watch him make things. So I always imagined that I'd do something where I made things, too. I was really more interested in architecture growing up because I would work with my dad on houses.

  

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• Architecture is a living thing. If I want to leave something to the future, it has to be able to change - but retain something of the ethos that we built up over 50 years.

  

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• I like a drink, mate. I'll have maybe 10 or 12 pints on a good night out.

  

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• I found university a little dispiriting. I thought I would enter the great halls of Plato, but instead I entered the halls of an intellectual sausage factory. I wanted to do something not on the main course, and chose the environment.

  

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• In one point of view, Gothic is not only the best, but the only rational architecture, as being that which can fit itself most easily to all services, vulgar or noble.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Architecture
  • Point Of View
  • Gothic