Quotes About Ancient Architecture

#1. The slightest nudge can send a fruit pyramid collapsing into ruin. Perhaps this is why there is so little ancient architecture and art left in the world. Perhaps ancient fat people bumped into buildings and statues and made them fall. Perhaps this is the real reason Rome fell

Becky Siame

#2. Photography intervenes in a very strange way. It makes the streets, gates, squares of the city into illustrations of a trashy novel, draws off the banal obviousness of this ancient architecture to inject it with the most pristine intensity ...

Louis Aragon

#3. We speed through the streets past modern buildings and ancient architecture. Gazing through the taxi window Rome becomes a wet painting someone has wiped a hand across.

Kevin James Moore

#4. The sense of space within the reality of any building is a new concept wherever architecture is concerned. But it is essential ancient principle just the same and is not only necessary now but implied by the ideal of democracy itself.

Frank Lloyd Wright

#5. Magic does that. It wastes you away. Once it grips you by the ear, the real world gets quieter and quieter, until you can hardly hear it at all.

Catherynne M Valente

#6. I'm sorry Dolph, but around here, you gotta earn respect.

Randy Orton

#7. We worship a mysterious not an anthropomorphic God.

Frances M. Young

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

Voltaire

#9. There is no greater motor for architecture than religious fervor. Ancient examples include the Inca, Aztec Egyptian civilizations. In more recent times, Christianity gave rise to the Gothic and Romanesque architecture of the European middle ages and Islam produced the wonders of the Ottoman Empire.

Helen Grant Ross

#10. Dating a tennis player is risky - love means nothing to us.

Anna Kournikova

#11. The library looked as it had always had: dim, cavernous, achingly beautiful in its ancient stone architecture and endless corridors lined with books. And totally silent.

Sarah J. Maas

#12. If there is anyone dependent on your income - parents, children, relatives - you need life insurance.

Suze Orman

#13. As you know, the business is cyclic with styles. It's no different from clothing styles.

Juice Newton

#14. In truth, the best long-term explanations about our ancient counterparts can be found in the paintings, sculpture, crafts, tools of utility, language and architecture left behind. These are the building blocks of civilization we call culture. These are what we call 'the arts.

Edward J. Fraughton

#15. There's no taking trout with dry breeches.

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

#16. You know the way Washington works. Once you start floating ideas, they are immediately attacked by all the different interest groups before the ideas can be brought to fruition.

Judd Gregg

#17. As the legend goes, when the Phoenix resurrects from the flames, she is even more beautiful than before.

Danielle LaPorte

#18. The golden section was discovered by the Egyptians, and has been used in art and architecture, most commonly, during the classical ages of Egypt and Greece.

Steven L. Griffing

#19. The search for wisdom is like a search for gold.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#20. Nervousness always provokes mistakes, and mistakes lead to easy convictions.

S.R. Ford

#21. In solitude, you listen to the sacred voice.

Lailah Gifty Akita