Dreams Quote by Ross King

“...Leaning on her maid, she stole through the winding galleries, and lightly descending the stairs, entered the long hall, which terminated in a dark…

— Regina Maria Roche

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

“Western cathedrals and abbeys…through soaring Gothic architecture, [give] us at floor level a sense of belonging within (but unable at the moment to inhabit…

— N.T. Wright

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

A Gothic building engenders true religion ... The light, falling through colored glass, the singular forms of the architecture, unite to give a silent…

— Madame de Stael

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

“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

But now I know that it is very important that all buildings should be consistent, that this is the quality of the Gothic cathedral,…

— Minoru Yamasaki

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

“architecture to spiritually uplift and thought it was a very bad idea to build functional, uninspired blocks of flats that would depress both their…

— Menna van Praag

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge