Top 15 Quotes About Romanesque Architecture
#1. Gregorian chant, Romanesque architecture, the Iliad , the invention of geometry were not, for the people through whom they were brought into being and made available to us, occasions for the manifestation of personality.
Simone Weil
#2. 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
#3. After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration.
Harry Seidler
#4. The Prince of the power of the air seems to bend all the force of his attack against the spirit of prayer.
Bonar Law
#5. The English say, Yours Truly, and mean it. The Italians say, I kiss your feet, and mean, I kick your head.
Wilfred Owen
#8. Steve believed it was our job to teach people aesthetics, to teach people what they should like,
Walter Isaacson
#9. I don't have any stress. I'm very lucky. I live a very healthy life.
Karl Lagerfeld
#10. Scotland small? Our multiform, infinite Scotland SMALL?
Hugh MacDiarmid
#11. Men touch their horses to calm them," she said distantly. "They caress their falcons to remind them that they are bound. Touch smacks of ownership, and I am weary of being a possession.
Courtney Milan
#12. What's green and smells like pork?" Relieved that he's engaging, I have to bite my lip to keep from grinning. "What?" "Kermit's finger." "Eew." I laugh as I bat his arm. "That is vile.
Kristen Callihan
#13. What a familiarity with the construction of Turing test bots had begun to show me was that we fail - again and again- to actually be human with other humans, so maddeningly much of the time.
Brian Christian
#14. The joy of poetry is that it will wait for you. Novels don't wait for you. Characters change. But poetry will wait. I think it's the greatest art.
Sonia Sanchez
#15. No one who works for a living should live in poverty.
Edward Kennedy
