20th century Quote by A. Hunter Dupree

At the time Gothic cathedrals were designed, most people lived in dark huts, so just walking into a space vastly larger than what they…

— Michael Persinger

The secret of great cathedrals is that their proportions conform to cosmic laws, 'shaping' people who spend time in them.

— Theodor Schwenk

When I visit any cathedral, it reminds me of being with my grandparents. They weren't particularly religious, but my grandfather was obsessed with architecture.

— Jonathan Anderson

Most buildings, whether they're Gothic cathedrals or Romanesque ones, were high tech for their time.

— Richard Rogers

The arts speak across epochs. If you think that people started to build a cathedral in 1315 and the people worked on that cathedral,…

— Wynton Marsalis

Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture.

— James Wyatt

“Arriving in the town of Princeton in the full flowering of fall, he could not help but gush: “Everything is gothic,” he wrote to…

— Owen Strachan

The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.

— Oscar Niemeyer

An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.

— Clarence Darrow

The nineteenth century will ever be known as the one in which the influences of science were first fully realised in civilised communities; the…

— Norman Lockyer

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

— Virginia Woolf

Maimed but still magnificent... Europe's mightiest medieval cathedral.

— Anonymous