Gothic Architecture Quotes

• Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

  Le Corbusier

  Light, Games, Architecture

  Eveline Perroud, Le Corbusier (2007). “Opus 1, Le Corbusier”

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• The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Infinity, Principles, Gothic

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1835). “Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge: In Two Volumes”, p.199

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• The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Demand, Stones

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.227, Рипол Классик

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• No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

  John Ruskin

  Simple, Architecture, Haughty

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.195, University of Virginia Press

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• The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. It is no doubt a sublimer effort of genius than the Greek style; but then it depends much more on execution for its effect.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Effort, Greek, Style

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1851). “Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.256

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• We must note carefully what distinction there is between a healthy and a diseased love of change; for as it was in healthy love of change that the Gothic architecture rose, it was partly in consequence of diseased love of change that it was destroyed.

  John Ruskin

  Rose, Healthy, Gothic

  John Ruskin (1854). “On the Nature of Gothic Architecture: And Herein of the True Functions of the Workman in Art ...”, p.16

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

  George Santayana

  Lovely, Promise, Ruins

  George Santayana (1944). “Persons and Places”

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• Scribal culture and Gothic architecture were both concerned with light through, not light on.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Light, Culture, Gothic

  Marshall McLuhan, W. Terrence Gordon, Elena Lamberti, Dominique Scheffel-Dunand (2011). “The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man”, p.329, University of Toronto Press

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• Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Ghetto, Architecture, Drivers

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• The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

  Voltaire

  Fighting, History, Architecture

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• Eroticism, hallucinogenic drugs, nuclear science, Gaudi's Gothic architecture, my love of gold - there is a common denominator in all of it: God is present in everything. The same magic is at the heart of all things, and all roads lead to the same revelation: we are children of God, and the entire universe tends towards the perfection of mankind.

  Salvador Dali

  Children, Heart, Perfection

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• Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.

  Maya Lin

  Art, Architecture, Tricky

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• The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history.

  Russell Lynes

  Names, Live For Today, Gone

  Russell Lynes (1963). “The Domesticated Americans”, New York : Harper

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• Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.

  Arne Jacobsen

  Architecture

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Melrose is the finest remaining specimen of Gothic architecture in Scotland. Some of the sculptured flowers in the cloister arches are remarkably beautiful and delicate, and the two windows - the south and east oriels - are of a lightness and grace of execution really surprising.

  Bayard Taylor

  Beautiful, Flower, Scotland

  Bayard Taylor (1875). “Views A-foot: Or, Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff”, p.69

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• 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

  Men, Gdp, Opera

  Kenneth Clark, British Broadcasting Corporation (1970). “Civilization”, London : British Broadcasting Corporation

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• It is better to have a plain, substantial building, with no extravagance about it, but without a debt, than to have the most splendid specimen of Gothic architecture that is overlaid by a mortgage.

  William Mackergo Taylor

  Extravagance, Debt, Gothic

  William Mackergo Taylor (1879). “Moses the Law-giver”

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