Architecture is frozen music! [ Madame de Stael ]
The poetry of bricks and mortar. [ Horace Greeley ]
Earth proudly wears the Parthenon
As the best gem upon her zone. [ Emerson ]
Architecture is the work of nations. [ Ruskin ]
A fabric huge Rose, like an exhalation. [ Milton ]
A Gothic church is a petrified religion. [ Coleridge ]
Histories in blazonry and poems in stone. [ Ouida ]
Spires whose silent finger points to heaven.
[ Wordsworth ]
Greek architecture is the flowering of geometry. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
The architect must not only understand drawing, but music. [ Vitruvius ]
The architect built his great heart into those sculptured stones. [ Longfellow ]
Archaeology is not only the handmaid of history, it is also the conservator of art. [ Lord Lytton ]
In the present day our literary masonry is well done, but our architecture is poor. [ Joubert ]
True features make the beauty of a face, and true proportions the beauty of architecture. [ Shaftesbury ]
No workman steel, no ponderous axes rung: Like some tall palm the noiseless fabric sprung. [ Bishop Heber ]
Madame de Stael pronounced architecture to be frozen music; so is statuary crystallized spirituality. [ Alcott ]
Gothic architecture rose, it was partly in consequence of diseased love of change that it was destroyed. [ Ruskin ]
Houses are built to live in, more than to look on; therefore let use be preferred before uniformity except where both may be had. [ Bacon ]
No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a painter or sculptor, he can only be a builder. [ Ruskin ]
If cities were built by the sound of music, then some edifices would appear to be constructed by grave, solemn tones, - others to have danced forth to light fantastic airs. [ Hawthorne ]
Art itself, in all its methods, is the child of religion. The highest and best works in architecture, sculpture and painting, poetry and music, have been born out of the religion of Nature. [ James Freeman Clarke ]
An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches in flat countries with spire-steeples, which, as they cannot be referred to any other object, point as with silent finger to the sky and stars. [ Coleridge ]
The drama embraces and applies all the beauties and decorations of poetry. The sister arts attend and adorn it. Painting, architecture, and music are her handmaids. The costliest lights of a people's intellect burn at her show. All ages welcome her. [ Willmott ]
Art is a jealous mistress, and, if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture, or philosophy, he makes a bad husband, and an ill provider, and should be wise in season, and not fetter himself with duties which will imbitter his days, and spoil him for his proper work. [ Emerson ]