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"All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!"

T. E. Lawrence on Architecture

More quotes about Architecture

  • "We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us."

    Winston Churchill on Architecture

  • "Whatever good things we build end up building us."

    Jim Rohn on Architecture

  • "I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build."

    Ayn Rand on Architecture

  • "A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom."

    Ayn Rand on Architecture

  • "Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age."

    Frank Lloyd Wright on Architecture

More quotes by T. E. Lawrence

  • "All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible."

  • "Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression."

  • "It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, but from the fear of it: such a base as we had in the Red Sea Parts, the desert, or in the minds of the men we converted to our creed."

  • "All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible."

  • "I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself."



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