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Quote of the Day November 14, 2026

“Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.”

Denis Diderot · Government

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David Byrne

Architecture theory is very interesting.

Architecture

Arthur Erickson

The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.

Architecture

Alvar Aalto

Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.

Architecture

William Bennett

All real education is the architecture of the soul.

Architecture

Havelock Ellis

The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person and in the end they unite.

Architecture

Audre Lorde

Poetry is not only dream and vision it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.

Architecture

Herbert Simon

Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design.

Architecture

Maya Lin

Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist.

Architecture