Cathedral Quote by Robert Hughes Download Open image “It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel.” — Robert Hughes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cathedral Dedicated Secular Travel
“It became obvious why Catholics had built such beautiful cathedrals and churches throughout the world. Not as gathering or meeting places for Christians. But… — Allen R. Hunt Copy Share Image
The Christian faith is a grand cathedral with divinely pictured windows. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Whence, then, did the cathedral derive its power? Clearly here: It took back the family into the confidences of religion. It taught man and… — Jenkin Lloyd Jones Copy Share Image
“It was a small church. No large cathedral towers overshadowed the purpose of the house of worship. It was a monument to faith rather… — Richard W. Kelly Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In cathedral or cottage, the art of worship is an inner adventure; it is the personal practice of the presence of God. — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
Cathedrals are built with pennies of the faithful. A great opera house also is a spiritual center, a temple of sorts, where many gather… — Eleanor Robson Belmont Copy Share Image
“Cathedrals are to be adored until the day when, to preserve them, it would be necessary to deny the truths which they teach.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“He visited the cathedral, and sat in its chilled light, pouring like water from above. He reminded himself that centuries ago men had built… — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
Whenever I traveled abroad and went into these old cathedrals and churches, I would feel so peaceful. — Zak Bagans Copy Share Image
“Most of the time they buy what other people buy. They move in great schools, like bluefish, all identical. There is safety in numbers.… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
The basic project of art is always to make the world whole and comprehensible, to restore it to us in all its glory and… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
A Gustave Courbet portrait of a trout has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion. — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
“In one sense, (Duchamp's) “The Large Glass” is a glimpse into Hell; a peculiarly modernist Hell of repetition and loneliness.” — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the idea that doubt can be heroic, if it is locked into a structure as grand as that of the paintings of Cezanne's… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
One thing is sure: the Sagrada Familia is the first Catholic temple whose bacon was ever saved by Shinto tourism. Not even Gaudi, who… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
What strip mining is to nature the art market has become to culture. — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
For the machine meant the conquest of horizontal space. It also meant a sense of that space which few people had experienced before –… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
“The World's Fair audience tended to think of the machine as unqualifiedly good, strong, stupid and obedient. They thought of it as a giant… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in 1890? Ebullience, idealism, confidence, the belief that there was plenty of territory… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
Whence, then, did the cathedral derive its power? Clearly here: It took back the family into the confidences of religion. It taught man and… — Jenkin Lloyd Jones Copy Share Image
“The sun appeared between the twin spires of the cathedral as its light reflected off the crescent and star that rose out of the… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
“Love can be a natural endowment, a present, or a gift. If it is not just a donation, it can be a divine talent.… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
When I started to build this cathedral, the word on the street was that I was crazy. — Justo Gallego Copy Share Image
As a boy soprano in the high school choir, I later sang a solo during the carol service at Canterbury Cathedral, but I was… — Hamish Bowles Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“When we look at a perfect cathedral, two different emotions emerge in us: On the one hand, the feeling of admiration for the architect… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
If it wasn't for Durham Cathedral I probably wouldn't be an architect. I was taken there when I was about seven and I couldn't… — George Clarke Copy Share Image
“The rooks were sailing about the cathedral towers; and the towers themselves, overlooking many a long unaltered mile of the rich country and its… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“We don’t find God in temples and cathedrals. We don’t find Him by standing on a prayer rug or sitting in a pew. God… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Walking at random through the streets, we came by chance upon the Cathedral of Notre Dame. I shall long remember my first impression of… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
We are material creatures who spend much of our lives on material pursuits (even building a cathedral or writing a novel requires stone and… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
