Action Quote by Martin Hopkins

“I loved buildings that had grown silently with the centuries, catching the best of each generation while time curbed the artist's pride and the…

— Evelyn Waugh

“so each day brought a further descent into the depths of concrete existence and a further ascent toward the heights of abstraction.”

— Jean d'Ormesson

“It cast a pale, silvery sheen across the landscape, limning the hard edges of the buildings in cold light.”

— Anna Carven

“Life is like a pavement. Some slabs are perfect, others broken or cracked but at the end iit's always a complete and perfect slab.”

— drake

“The great city seemed to weigh upon me, as though it were crushing me under its heap of brick and stone. Gray, drizzly skies,…

— Gary Inbinder

“-Let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure; Mdlle Reuters is a skillful architect. - And interest? -yes, no doubt;…

— Charlotte Brontë

“Overgrown, crumbling, tilted, full of cracks, returning to the soil. Paint fell from boards, plaster from walls. Unsupervised, matter was collapsing under its own…

— Andrzej Stasiuk

“My life is four walls of missed opportunities poured in concrete molds.”

— Tahereh Mafi

“Some days I tell myself that my mission is to say something about the art and sometimes the bliss of limitation. And the legibility…

— Fredrik Sjöberg

I felt that the decrepit state of these once magnificent buildings, with their broken gutters, walls blackened by rainwater, crumbling plaster revealing the coarse…

— Anonymous

“[D]espite the patina of civility coating most of modern society, underneath it is a thick layer of savagery.”

— Gene Doucette

“Don't highlight the flaws in my structure if you're unwilling to repair the cracks in your very own foundation." ~Elissa Gabrielle”

— Elissa Gabrielle