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> # You employ stone, wood and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces. That is construction. Ingenuity is at work. But suddenly you touch my heart, you do me good, I am happy and I say: 'This is beautiful.' That is Architecture. Art enters in.

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## More from Le Corbusier

1. > Une maison est une machine-a-habiter.

[Permalink to quote \#3](https://quotesby.net/Le-Corbusier/3/ "Permalink to quote 3")
2. > It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution.

[Permalink to quote \#5](https://quotesby.net/Le-Corbusier/5/ "Permalink to quote 5")
3. > The 'styles' are a lie.

[Permalink to quote \#2](https://quotesby.net/Le-Corbusier/2/ "Permalink to quote 2")

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