"An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome. There was something in the old power of architecture, which it had from the recluse more than from the citizen."
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John Ruskin, The Seven Lamps of Architecture‎ (1880), Ch. 3 : The Lamp of Power.
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