"In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions: Commodity, Firmness and Delight."

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Source : 'Elements of Architecture' (1624) pt. 1

Henry Wotton

#Art Quotes #Three Quotes #Delight Quotes

“By believing passionately in that which doesn't exist, you create it and that which has not been sufficiently desired is what we call the non existent.”
“Like my mum, I sometimes buy things I shouldn't and fill my house with rubbish.”
“A book may only be judged for what it is, not what you'd like it to be.”

Source : Caitlín R. Kiernan's blog entry (greygirlbeast.livejournal.com), December 11, 2006.
“A society that produces suicide murderers in quantity is essentially committing its own suicide.”
“I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”
“[Martin] Luther did not regard the water in baptism as common water, but as a water which had become, through the Word with its inherent divine power, a gracious water of life, a washing of regeneration. Through this divine efficacy of the Word the sacrament effects regeneration.”
“I always thought I was a singer, but I really am not.”
“Well, whether it's on film or on TV, you don't want to throw too many curves at your audio and video guys.”

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