Quotes by Spengler, Oswald

Long ago the country bore the country-town and nourished it with her b >>

In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life >>

The press today is an army with carefully organized weapons, the journ >>

Quotations about Architecture

An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to >>

Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to g >>

Heredity is a strong factor, even in architecture. Necessity first mot >>

It is the Late city that first defies the land, contradicts Nature in the lines of its silhouette, denies all Nature. It wants to be something different from and higher than Nature. These high-pitched gables, these Baroque cupolas, spires, and pinnacles, neither are, nor desire to be, related with anything in Nature. And then begins the gigantic megalopolis, the city-as-world, which suffers nothing beside itself and sets about annihilating the country picture.

Spengler, Oswald