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"I have nothing but good things to say about Artisans Group..."

"They seem just as excited as I am about the project and its realization!..."

"Our experience of working with the Artisans Group was remarkably smooth..."

"We are very excited about our passive house built by the Artisans Group!..."

"Great job and we will definitely (and are already) recommend your company to others..."

"The idea of a passive house was new to us and we chose it because of its overall view of environmental sustainability..."

"We were impressed by the home The Artisans Group designed for us..."

"The complexity involved in all the details of building a house is huge..."

"The quality, creativity, expertise and service have been second to none..."

"You can't greenwash this. You have to be a terrific builder to do this..."

"The windows never feel cold, nor do the concrete floors, even though they don't have in-floor heating..."

"The numbers speak for themselves… I can't see why anyone would build any other way than a Passive House..."

"Well, we don't rent pigs and I figure it's better to say it right out front."

"Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success."

"The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broad swords, or canals, or statues, or songs."

"While features, benefits, and price are still important to people, experiences and personal identity are even more important."

"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone."

"Each morning when I awake like a scholar at his first class, I prepare a blank mind for the day, to write upon."

"The most powerful drive in the ascent of man is his pleasure in his own skill. He loves to do what he does well and, having done it well, he loves to do it better."

"In the same way that music inspires us to certain feelings, space can do the same thing."

"Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light."

"Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul."

"It's design, not strategy that ignites passion in people. And the magic behind better design and better business is innovation."

"Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected."

"The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose."

"Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan."

"If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself."

"When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality."

"ab ovo usque ad mala."

"The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind."

"Expect innovation…from people inside the company who think outside."

"Good relations with the Wookiees, I have."

"If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself."

"Let him that would move the world first move himself."

"Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground."

"Anything is possible if you can perceive the way."

"Believe you can and you're halfway there."

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."

"Community cannot for long feed on itself; it can only flourish with the coming of others from beyond, their unknown and undiscovered brothers."

"To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour."

"We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision."

"The power of imagination makes us infinite."

"The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broad swords, or canals, or statues, or songs."

"The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself."

"Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind."

"Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen."

"Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning."

"What is more agreeable than one's home?"

"You can't appreciate Shakespeare until you've read him in the original Klingon."

"Form follows function-that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union."

"Size matters not, ... Look at me. Judge me by size, do you?"

"The environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?"

"Things architectural have two parents: construction and art. Construction serves. Art satisfies."

"Making variations on a theme is really the crux of creativity."

"Heroism is simply a matter of facing the truth. One action can put everything in the proper place."

"Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected." ~Steve Jobs

"How do you know when an idea is innovative? When it scares the hell out of you."

"All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space."

"There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk around, and architecture is art you can walk through."

"The home should be the treasure chest of living."

"Per aspera ad astra"

"Logic is the beginning of wisdom; not the end."

"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe."

"While features, benefits, and price are still important to people, experiences and personal identity are even more important."

"Wisdom begins in wonder."

"Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art."

"In the absence of commerce, chocolate is more valuable than gold."