Explore Quotes by Stephen Gardiner

Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.

The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition.

The mandala describes balance. This is so whatever the pictorial form.

The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature.

Up until the War of the Roses there had been continual conflict in England.

In Egypt, the living were subordinate to the dead.

Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.

And so, inevitably, one returns to the centre of Western culture, Greece, and we have never, in any sense, lost our ties with the architectural concepts that this country's ancient civilization explored and demonstrated, nor with the political and social freedom that lay behind them.

The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.

The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages.

The Egyptian tomb was the outcome of the Mesopotamian influence and followed from the religious crisis the country had undergone.

The frame of the cave leads to the frame of man.

Human requirements are the inspiration for art.

In the East there is a gap between the top of the wall and the underside of the roof; the wall does not act as a support. Instead, it acts as a screen, and the Chinese were able to use it as they wished.

The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.

The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.

In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts.

Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads.

The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center.

Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.

The chief concern of the French Impressionists was the discovery of balance between light and dark.