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“When I lately stood with a friend before [the cathedral of]
Amiens, . . . he asked me how it happens that we can no longer
build such piles? I replied: "Dear Alphonse, men in those days
had convictions (Ueberzeugungen), we moderns have opinions
(Meinungen) and it requires something more than an opinion to
build a Gothic cathedral.”
Heinrich Heine Quotes Source: Confidential Letters to August Lewald on the French Stage (letter 9), translated by C.G. Leland
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“Architecture is the art of how to waste space.”
Philip Johnson Quotes Source: in the "New York Times"
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“Grandeur . . . consists in form, and not in size: and to the eye
of the philosopher, the curve drawn on a paper two inches long,
is just as magnificent, just as symbolic of divine mysteries and
melodies, as when embodied in the span of some cathedral roof.”
Charles Kingsley Quotes Source: Prose Idylls--My Winter Garden
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“In the elder days of Art,
Builders wrought with greatest care
Each minute and unseen part;
For the gods see everywhere.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes Source: The Builders (st. 5)
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“The architect
Built his great heart into these sculptured stones,
And with him toiled his children, and their lives
Were builded, with his own, into the walls,
As offerings unto God.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes Source: Christus--The Golden Legend (pt. III, In the Cathedral)
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“Ah, to build, to build!
That is the noblest of all the arts.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes Source: Michael Angelo (pt. I, II, l. 54)
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“There will never be great architects or great architecture
without great patrons.”
Edwin Lutyens Quotes Source: in "Country Life" magazine
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“Anon, out of the earth a fabric huge
Rose, like an exhalation.”
John Milton Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. I, l. 710)
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“Nor did there want
Cornice or frieze with bossy sculpture graven.”
John Milton Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. I, l. 715)
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“The hasty multitude
Admiring enter'd, and the work some praise,
And some the architect: his hand was known
In heaven by many a tower'd structure high,
Where scepter'd angels held their residence,
And sat as princes.”
John Milton Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. I, l. 730)
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