A Quote by Louisa May Alcott

Madam de Stael pronounced architecture to be frozen music; so is statuary crystalized spirituality.

Louisa May Alcott

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Louisa May Alcott
American - Novelist
November 29, 1832 - March 6, 1888

Allow the information to tell you how it wants to be displayed. As architecture is ‘frozen music’, information architecture is ‘frozen conversation’. Any good conversation is based on understanding.

Richard Saul Wurman

If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.

Quincy Jones

If music is frozen architecture, then the potpourri is frozen coffee-table gossip... Potpourri is the art of adding apples to pears.

Arnold Schoenberg

Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Since it [architecture] is music in space, as it were a frozen music.

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

Architecture in general is frozen music.

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

I call architecture frozen music.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Architecture may be frozen music, but it melts.

Osbert Lancaster

The spirituality of the music is something that I always search for in what I do, because I think that music has to have everything inside: a strong architecture, a support, the emotion.

Ludovico Einaudi

I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Architecture is frozen music. [Ger., Die Backunst ist eine erstarrte Musik.]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Defaced ruins of architecture and statuary, like the wrinkles of decrepitude of a once beautiful woman, only make one regret that one did not see them when they were enchanting.

Horace Walpole

I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Mathematicks and Philosophy, Geography, natural History, Naval Architecture, navigation, Commerce and Agriculture, in order to give their Children a right to study Painting, Poetry, Musick, Architecture, Statuary, Tapestry and Porcelaine. (12 May 1780)

John Adams

You are hard at work madam ," said the man near her. Yes," Answered Madam Defarge ; " I have a good deal to do." What do you make, Madam ?" Many things." For instance ---" For instance," returned Madam Defarge , composedly , Shrouds." The man moved a little further away, as soon as he could, feeling it mightily close and oppressive .

Charles Dickens

When we come to understand architecture as the essential nature of all harmonious structure we will see that it is the architecture of music that inspired Bach and Beethoven, the architecture of painting that is inspiring Picasso as it inspired Velasquez, that it is the architecture of life itself that is the inspiration of the great poets and philosophers.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Flea-Market vendors are frozen mid-haggle. Middle-aged women are frozen in the middle of their lives. The gavels of frozen judges are frozen between guilt and innocence. On the ground are the crystals of the frozen first breaths of babies, and those of the last gasps of the dying.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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