“Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.”
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Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts.
Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other.
They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.
There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.