A Quote by Osbert Lancaster

Architecture may be frozen music, but it melts.

Osbert Lancaster

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Architecture Frozen May Music

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Osbert Lancaster
English - Cartoonist
August 4, 1908 - July 27, 1986

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

I call architecture frozen music.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Architecture in general is frozen music.

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

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

Louisa May Alcott

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

As the rising sun melts thinly frozen ice, so the Japanese Army is overcoming Chinese troops.

Shunroku Hata

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

I have found a paper of mine among some others in which I call architecture 'petrified music.' Really there is something in this; the tone of mind produced by architecture approaches the effect of music.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I think this is the case in the great majority of authoritarian states: on the surface, because of repression, everything seems frozen, but when the sun comes out and the ice melts, you find that there was a lot of life underneath all along.

Aung San

February... Bending from Heaven, in azure mirth, It kissed the forehead of the Earth, And smiled upon the silent sea, And bade the frozen streams be free, And waked to music all their fountains, And breathed upon the frozen mountains.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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