Carmine Quote by Malcolm Gladwell

“I have seen statues that would look stodgy beside her, I have seen painted Madonnas whose features would be coarse beside her pale luminous…

— Philippa Gregory

“Her face was plastered with layers of powder and looked like a face of stone. And with her noble profile, she seemed, on the…

— Marcel Proust

“…[F]or the Lovers the place of worship Is the arch of the Beloved’s eyebrows. O Morning breeze, if you perchance Should find where my…

— Amir Khusrow Dehlavi

“ A Cathedral Façade at Midnight Along the sculptures of the western wall I watched the moonlight creeping: It moved as if it hardly…

— Thomas Hardy

“And suddenly, in the middle of the central nave, I realize something very important: the cathedral is me, it is all of us. We…

— Paulo Coelho

“Gilds the crenelated towers of the churches here and there, Intensifies the hue of flowers makes thy lovely face more fair.”

— Marguerite de Angeli

“exquisite--such was Fantine; and beneath these feminine adornments and these ribbons one could divine a statue, and in that statue a soul.”

— Victor Hugo

“Why should the Mass of Sainte Cécile bend my thoughts wandering among caverns whose walls blaze with ragged masses of virgin silver? What was…

— Robert W. Chambers

“She was more of a marble statue under a cascade of moonlight, smelling like flowers and ivy—the glory of a weeping graveyard angel.”

— Rob Thurman

“The Ivory Tower stands, Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans”

— Petra Hermans

“One can trace the relics of this former happiness in the trim shapes of the buildings, the occasional graceful churches, and the evidences of…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“God did not live in this church; these statues gave an image to nothingness. I was the supernatural in this cathedral. I was the…

— Anne Rice