Monday, September 02, 2013

Quote of the day - Will Durant

An age of political excitement is usually a stimulant to literature . . . [b]ut a state always verging on bankruptcy, and engaged in almost permanent revolution, does not favor art - and least of all architecture.

Will Durant, The Renaissance, p. 163

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