Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture. — James Wyatt Copy Share Image
The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. It is no doubt a sublimer effort of genius than the Greek… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Melrose is the finest remaining specimen of Gothic architecture in Scotland. Some of the sculptured flowers in the cloister arches are remarkably… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
It is better to have a plain, substantial building, with no extravagance about it, but without a debt, than to have the… — William Mackergo Taylor Copy Share Image
“Western cathedrals and abbeys…through soaring Gothic architecture, [give] us at floor level a sense of belonging within (but unable at the moment… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
Eroticism, hallucinogenic drugs, nuclear science, Gaudi's Gothic architecture, my love of gold - there is a common denominator in all of it:… — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
“Buttresses were one of the prime structural features of Gothic architecture: by accommodating the thrust of the vaults transferred to them from… — Ross King Copy Share Image
Scribal culture and Gothic architecture were both concerned with light through, not light on. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
We must note carefully what distinction there is between a healthy and a diseased love of change; for as it was in… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“Mother refuses to sell to a buyer who’ll “ruin it,” which also seems to include making it a normal bed-and-breakfast or house.… — Cyn Balog Copy Share Image
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