“I really like the city of Vienna. I like its art, its music and its architecture. In short, I like the culture that Vienna represents. What really captures me is the period around 1900 - the time of Freud, Schnitzler and Klimt. This is the period in which the modern view of mind was born.” MindArtCultureBornViewsCitiesModernPeriodsArchitectureCaptureVienna Author:Eric Kandel
“The Art Deco movement, architecture from that period and sort of the industrial aesthetic from that period. Art Deco meets tribal kind of thing. All that is my primal inspiration.” KindArtInspirationMovementPeriodsArchitectureAestheticPrimalArt Deco Author:Pamela Love
“The word Gothic, in the sense in which it is generally employed, is wholly unsuitable, but wholly consecrated. Hence we accept it and we adopt it, like all the rest of the world, to characterize the architecture of the second half of the Middle Ages, where the ogive is the principle which succeeds the architecture of the first period, of which the semi-circle is the father.” WorldFirstsAgeFatherHalfAcceptingPrinciplesMiddlePeriodsSucceedArchitectureCirclesEmployedMiddle AgesGothic Book:The Works of Victor Hugo Source: The Works of Victor Hugo
“Type is one of the most eloquent means of expression in every epoch of style. Next to architecture, it gives the most characteristic portrait of a period and the most severe testimony of a nation's intellectual status.” GivingMeanNextNationsStyleExpressionTypePeriodsIntellectualArchitectureCharacteristicsPortraitsSevereTestimonyEloquentEpoch Author:Peter Behrens