All art is propaganda.
—Upton Sinclair, 1925
***
Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on
the soul.
—Ernest Dimnet, 1932
An arch never sleeps.
—James Fergusson, 1910
10
Architecture is frozen music.
—Friedrich Schelling, 1803
11
Gothic cathedrals and Doric temples are mathematics in stone.
—Oswald Spengler, 1923
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant
vines.
—Frank Lloyd Wright, 1953
***
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
—Aldous Huxley, 1931
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.
—Victor Hugo, 1864
Without music, life would be a mistake.
12
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1888
If there is a Kingdom of Heaven, it lies in music.
—Edward Abbey, 1989
The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.
—Thomas Beecham
13
10
The author acknowledged a similar Hindu proverb.
11
A similar aphorism is frequently attributed to Goethe, but the first publication of his version
dates somewhat later (1829).
12
This line evidently refers to the music known in author’s times, nowadays called the “classical
music”.
13
As quoted in his biography by H. Atkins and A. Newman (1978).
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—Upton Sinclair, 1925
***
Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on
the soul.
—Ernest Dimnet, 1932
An arch never sleeps.
—James Fergusson, 1910
10
Architecture is frozen music.
—Friedrich Schelling, 1803
11
Gothic cathedrals and Doric temples are mathematics in stone.
—Oswald Spengler, 1923
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant
vines.
—Frank Lloyd Wright, 1953
***
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
—Aldous Huxley, 1931
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.
—Victor Hugo, 1864
Without music, life would be a mistake.
12
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1888
If there is a Kingdom of Heaven, it lies in music.
—Edward Abbey, 1989
The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.
—Thomas Beecham
13
10
The author acknowledged a similar Hindu proverb.
11
A similar aphorism is frequently attributed to Goethe, but the first publication of his version
dates somewhat later (1829).
12
This line evidently refers to the music known in author’s times, nowadays called the “classical
music”.
13
As quoted in his biography by H. Atkins and A. Newman (1978).
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