Architecture Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In one point of view, Gothic is not only the best, but the only rational architecture, as being that which can fit itself most…

— John Ruskin

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

Of all forms of visible otherworldliness, it seems to me, the Gothic is at once the most logical and the most beautiful. It reaches…

— H. L. Mencken

“Arriving in the town of Princeton in the full flowering of fall, he could not help but gush: “Everything is gothic,” he wrote to…

— Owen Strachan

Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.

— Kenneth Clark

Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture.

— George Santayana

“I believe that the characteristic or moral elements of Gothic are the following, placed in the order of their importance: 1. Savageness; 2. Changefulness;…

— John Ruskin

“Certain kinds of people, and a fortiori certain kinds of writers, have always experienced the world around them in the Gothic manner, I’m almost…

— Thomas Ligotti

The word Gothic, in the sense in which it is generally employed, is wholly unsuitable, but wholly consecrated. Hence we accept it and we…

— Victor Hugo

I've always had a fondness for the Gothic. That's what kind of stories attract me: Why do people do bad things?

— Gillian Flynn

The gothic is singular in this; one seems easily at home in the renaissance; one is not too strange in the Byzantine; as for…

— Henry Adams