"Architecture begins where engineering ends."

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Source : Speech at Harvard Department of Architecture. "Architects on Architecture". Book by Paul Heyer, 1966.

Walter Gropius

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“I decline Christianity because it is Jewish, because it is international, and because, in cowardly fashion, it preaches Peace on Earth.”
“Baseball is a lot like life. It's a day-to-day existence, full of ups and downs. You make the most of your opportunities in baseball as you do in life.”
“I absolutely never thought I would! But it's something to look forward to in my career. I'm not just the young, leading guy who falls in love, simple and naive. Even just doing Enjolras recently in Les Mis. I used to cover Marius and thought: "Oh, that's simple. What I should be doing." But then when I got Enjolras, I hadn't even thought about it. He's more powerful, sure of himself, a leader. It was nice! It was much harder singing, passionate, declamatory. Which was awesome - and now this!”
“Ole Anderson! Layin' down could not take me out with a steel toed boot! Could not put me away with a steel toed boot! And I'm gonna say it right now and get it through your head... BOTH OF YA (Ole Anderson and Ivan Koloff) THIS THANG WILL NEVER BE OVAAAAAAAAAAAAAA”
“Great sorrows have no leisure to complain: Least ills vent forth, great griefs within remain.”
“Compose. (No ideas but in things) Invent! Saxifrage is my flower that splits the rocks.”

Source : William Carlos Williams, A. Walton Litz, Christopher MacGowan (1991). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1939-1962”, p.455, New Directions Publishing
“I've always cared more about taking pictures than about the art market.”
“Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night!”

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