Gothic Architecture Quotes
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Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.
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The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man.
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Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture.
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Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.
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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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No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.
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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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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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The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.
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Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.
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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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Scribal culture and Gothic architecture were both concerned with light through, not light on.
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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.
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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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The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.
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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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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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