Quotes by Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster >>

A stiff apology is a second insult. The injured party does not want to >>

A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no >>

Quotations about Architecture

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A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People ask why we have no typical architecture of the modern world, like impressionism in painting. Surely it is obviously because we have not enough dogmas; we cannot bear to see anything in the sky that is solid and enduring, anything in the sky that does not change like the clouds of the sky.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.