19 Cathedrals Quotes for You to Enjoy

Our horizon is the creation of a noble society to which, like the medieval builder of those glorious cathedrals, you will have added your conception, your artful piece of stone. Adrienne Clarkson

In northern architecture - the cathedrals of Europe and all the little churches - the details, the carving of stone, become necessary because the light is not there to help you very much. You have to enrich surfaces. The desert reduces form to its simplest nature. There is no need for gargoyles or flying buttresses in the desert. I. M. Pei

Nature You Architecture Light Become Enrich Churches Flying Details Carving Simplest Cathedrals Because Very Stone Northern Form Little Much Help Europe Desert Necessary Need

I feel comfortable singing in the great cathedrals of the world because I spent so much time as a child singing in church. And it isn't very different. Of course, nothing looks quite like Notre Dame de Paris. Jessye Norman

Time Great World Church Singing Nothing Spent Paris Feel Like Cathedrals Looks Course Comfortable Because Very Child Quite So Much Time Different Much Notre Dame Dame

It is not architectural achievement that makes the structures of earlier times seem to us so full of significance but the circumstance that antique temples, Roman basilicas, and even the cathedrals of the Middle Ages are not the works of single personalities but creations of entire epochs. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Achievement Single Circumstance Significance Temples Entire Seem Architectural Structures Cathedrals Makes Times Antique Roman Middle Middle Ages Personalities Us Ages Creations Full Works Even Earlier

Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria. David Lodge

Age Criteria Cathedrals Existence Modern Modern Age Justify Utilitarian Universities

I dream of diving in two places where I have not been yet. One is Antarctica, because of its crystal clear waters and amazing fauna, in addition to the ice cathedrals. The other is the Arctic, where I'd like to see the northernmost kelp forests. Enric Sala

Imagine if all those kings and dukes hadn't commissioned those crazy cathedrals, paintings and music... we'd still be living in sticks and mud. Because none of those things made any economic sense. Human beings' capacity to 'waste time' is a miracle - but that's exactly what art is for. Ha-Joon Chang

Music Art Time Crazy Made Sense Waste Time Living Those Exactly Exactly What Kings Miracle Economic Cathedrals Because Sticks None Still Commissioned Any Human Human Beings Capacity Mud Beings Paintings Waste Things Imagine

Art used to be made in the name of faith. We made cathedrals, we made stained-glass windows, we made murals. Julia Cameron

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The tendency of our time is wholly oriented toward the secular. The efforts of the mystics will remain episodes. Despite a deepening of our conceptions of life, we will build no cathedrals. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Life Time Will Secular Build Despite Our Our Time Remain Tendency Toward Cathedrals Efforts Episodes Oriented Wholly Deepening

National parks are cathedrals of spirituality and emotion, and unfortunately, they are being loved to death by many of the same people who enjoy them the most. Michael Frome

Death People Spirituality National Enjoy Parks Emotion Most Cathedrals National Parks Same Being Loved Unfortunately Them Who Many

We spend more time at cinemas, theaters, art galleries and theme parks than we do at churches, and they have become our new cathedrals. We can spend hours at any of these places of entertainment but if church service goes on too long we get impatient. Michael Huffington

Service Art Time Entertainment Church Long Become Too Cinemas Our Spend Churches Impatient More Parks New Hours Cathedrals Than Get Goes Any Theaters Places Theme Galleries

I was 17 when I decided to write stories as big as cathedrals, overflowing with the kind of memorable and audacious characters Walker Percy, Ernest Hemingway and Saul Bellow created. Philip Schultz

Big Characters Kind Memorable Write Cathedrals Audacious Overflowing Ernest Hemingway Walker Stories Decided Created Hemingway Saul

Most buildings, whether they're Gothic cathedrals or Romanesque ones, were high tech for their time. Richard Rogers

Time High High-Tech Most Cathedrals Buildings Gothic Were Whether Tech

Liturgy and worship were never meant to be confined to the cathedrals and sanctuaries. Liturgy at its best can be performed like a circus or theater - making the Gospel visible as a witness to the world around us. Shane Claiborne

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