Architecture Quote by Madame de Stael

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

You think religion is what's inside a little building filled with pretty lights from stained glass windows. But it's not. It's wings! Wings!

— Dorothy Canfield Fisher

It is perhaps the principal admirableness of the Gothic schools of architecture, that they receive the results of the labour of inferior minds; and…

— John Ruskin

In one point of view, Gothic is not only the best, but the only rational architecture, as being that which can fit itself most…

— John Ruskin

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. It is no doubt a sublimer effort of genius than the Greek style; but…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“They are approaching now a lengthy brick improvisation, a Victorian paraphrase of what once, long ago, resulted in Gothic cathedrals—but which, in its own…

— Thomas Pynchon

Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.

— Goldwin Smith

I'm not a religious person. But, when I look at a beautiful cathedral, what brings awe, what induces awe is the idea that architecture,…

— Jason Silva

When I think of a place of worship, I think of a place where one can sit and be reminded of all the things…

— Richard Meier

Everybody is, I suppose, either Classic or Gothic by nature. Either you feel in your bones that buildings should be rectangular boxes with lids…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

I have approached the buildings as psychological and poetic manifestations - rather than from the more technical viewpoints of the architect and historian (which…

— Clarence John Laughlin