“Dante and Hopkins, Mozart and Palestrina, Michelangelo and El Greco, Bramante and Gaudi have brought more souls to God than all the preachers of Texas.” ArtDanteMozartMichelangeloReligious ArtGaudiGerard Manley HopkinsEl GrecoPalestrina Book:The Catholic Writer Today: And Other Essays Source: The Catholic Writer Today: And Other Essays
“Lisbon, to me, is the Lisbon of Pessoa. Just like London is Woolf’s, or rather, Mrs. Dalloway’s. Barcelona is Gaudí's and Rome is da Vinci’s. You see them in every crevice and hear their echoes in every cathedral. I’d like to be the child, or rather, the mother of a city but I neither have a home nor a resting place. My race is humankind. My religion is kindness. My work is love and, well, my city is the walls of your heart.” LoveHeartCountryHomeMotherReligionHouseWorkRaceKindnessHumanEnglandLondonBritainChildHumankindSpainCityRestKamandKojouriKamand KojouriSeePlaceStateBarcelonaUnited KingdomHearPortugalEchoWoolfCreviceCathedralPessoaCommuneGaudiProvinceDa VinciLisbonDallowayRegion Author:Kamand Kojouri
“Writing is secondary speech and speech is secondary being. This Gaudí knew: that creation must be born of theophany (communion with the silence beneath beings and identities).” WritingArtCreationSpeechGaudiTheophany Book:The Sea Once Swallowed Me: A Memoir of Love, Solitude, and the Limits of Language Source: The Sea Once Swallowed Me: A Memoir of Love, Solitude, and the Limits of Language
“I have always accepted and respected all other schools of architecture, from the chill and elemental structures of Mies van der Rohe to the imagination and delirium of Gaudi. I must design what pleases me in a way that is naturally linked to my roots and the country of my origin.” WayCountrySchoolImaginationDesignPleaseRootsStructureArchitectureAcceptedLinkedChillVansElementalsDeliriumPlease MeGaudiMies Van Der Rohe Author:Oscar Niemeyer
“Food is a necessary component to life. People can live without Renoir, Mozart, Gaudi, Beckett, but they cannot live without food.” PeopleComponentsBeckettRenoirGaudi Author:Grant Achatz
“One thing is sure: the Sagrada Familia is the first Catholic temple whose bacon was ever saved by Shinto tourism. Not even Gaudi, who believed in miracles, could have forseen that.” FirstsOne ThingMiracleCatholicSavedTemplesTourismFamiliaGaudi Author:Robert Hughes
“What if you're Gaudi and you know you're the best architect and everyone is saying that you're saying you're the best architect the wrong way?” IfsKnowsWayWhat IfArchitectWrong WayYou Re The BestGaudi Author:Kanye West
“Eroticism, hallucinogenic drugs, nuclear science, Gaudi's Gothic architecture, my love of gold - there is a common denominator in all of it: God is present in everything. The same magic is at the heart of all things, and all roads lead to the same revelation: we are children of God, and the entire universe tends towards the perfection of mankind.” HeartChildrenUniverseCommonMagicMankindDrugAll ThingsPerfectionGoldArchitectureNuclearRevelationsGothicChild Of GodCommon DenominatorGothic ArchitectureHallucinogenic DrugsGaudi Author:Salvador Dali