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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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Samuel Butler

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

Architecture

Gilbert K. Chesterton

All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

Architecture

Gilbert K. Chesterton

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

Architecture

Victor Hugo

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.

Architecture

Voltaire

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

Architecture

Ernest Hemingway

Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.

Architecture

Ernest Hemingway

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

Architecture

Bob Dylan

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.

Architecture