“They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.”– Henry David Thoreau Related Quotes “All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!”– T. E. Lawrence “I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.”– Catherine Deneuve “You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it’s best.”– Ben Nicholson