builder quotes

   No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.

-John Ruskin
  Lectures on Architecture and Painting.

Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to thegod he worships, aftera style purely his own, norcan he get off by hammering marble instead.We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones.

- Henry David Thoreau
 Walden, or Life in theWoods,'Higher Laws'.