"Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space."
-Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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"A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous."
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"Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins."
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"Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany."
-Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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"I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good."
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"True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life."
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"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."
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"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television."
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"I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art."
-Ernst Fischer
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"Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know."
-Groucho Marx
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"I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot."
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"An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have."
-Andy Warhol
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