Best Gothic Architecture Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Melrose is the finest remaining specimen of Gothic architecture in Scotland. Some of the sculptured flowers in the cloister arches are remarkably beautiful and delicate, and the two windows - the south and east oriels - are of a lightness and grace of execution really surprising.”

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Book:Views A-foot: Or, Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff

Source: Views A-foot: Or, Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff

“The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. It is no doubt a sublimer effort of genius than the Greek style; but then it depends much more on execution for its effect.”

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Book:Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source: Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“It is better to have a plain, substantial building, with no extravagance about it, but without a debt, than to have the most splendid specimen of Gothic architecture that is overlaid by a mortgage.”

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Book:Moses the Law-giver

Source: Moses the Law-giver

“We must note carefully what distinction there is between a healthy and a diseased love of change; for as it was in healthy love of change that the Gothic architecture rose, it was partly in consequence of diseased love of change that it was destroyed.”

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Book:On the Nature of Gothic Architecture: And Herein of the True Functions of the Workman in Art ...

Source: On the Nature of Gothic Architecture: And Herein of the True Functions of the Workman in Art ...

“Scribal culture and Gothic architecture were both concerned with light through, not light on.”

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Book:The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man

Source: The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man

“Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.”

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Book:Civilization

Source: Civilization

“Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.”

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Author:Arne Jacobsen

“Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.”

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Author:Rem Koolhaas

“Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.”

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Author:Maya Lin

“No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.”

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Book:The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings

Source: The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings

“The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.”

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Author:Voltaire

“The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.”

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Book:Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge: In Two Volumes

Source: Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge: In Two Volumes

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

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Book:Opus 1, Le Corbusier

Source: Opus 1, Le Corbusier

“The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history.”

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Book:The Domesticated Americans

Source: The Domesticated Americans

“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.”

“Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture.”

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Book:Persons and Places

Source: Persons and Places