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— W. H. Auden"Cathedrals, luxury liners laden with souls, Holding to the east their hulls of stone."
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Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. The size of the project means little in art, beyond the money matter. It is the quality of the character that really counts.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
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I like the thought that what we are to do on this earth is embellish it for its greater beauty, so that oncoming generations can look back to the shapes we leave here and get the same thrill that I get in looking back at theirs - at the Parthenon, at Chartres Cathedral.
— Philip Johnson
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