Cathedrals Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.

— Henry Ward Beecher

“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

And the works that endure and will endure for ever, the great masterpieces, cannot have come into being as humanity... imagines. Man is only…

— Anton Webern

There's nothing more inspiring than the complexity and beauty of the human heart.

— Cynthia Hand

Cathedrals are an unassailable witness to human passion. Using what demented calculation could an animal build such places? I think we know. An animal…

— Lionel Tiger

The beautiful is a phenomenon which is never apparent of itself, but is reflected in a thousand different works of the creator.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.

— Oscar Niemeyer

An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.

— Clarence Darrow

Nothing as drastic an innovation as abstract art could have come in to existence, save as the consequence of a most profound, relentless, unquenchable…

— Robert Motherwell

Moller, in his Essay on Architecture, taught that the building which was fitted accurately to answer its end would turn out to be beautiful,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Life may as properly be called an art as any other; and the great incidents in it are no more to be considered as…

— Henry Fielding

Humanity looks to works of art to shed light upon its path and its destiny.

— Pope John Paul II