Cathedrals Quotes - Page 5

• Norwich es una buena ciudad. Ninguna mejor. Si hay otra ciudad en el Reino Unido con una escuela de pintores que lleva su nombre, una galería de arte moderno sin parangón, una universidad con reputación de excelencia literaria que puede presumir de tener antiguos alumnos ganadores del Premio Booker, una de las catedrales románicas más grandiosas del mundo y una extraordinaria biblioteca de última generación, aún no he oído hablar de ella.

  Stephen Fry

  Arte, Escuela, Ganar

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• The information that was contained in a cathedral was based upon a common culture - a common Christian culture - and the elements were chosen for a common symbolic meaning. Someone who knew everything that was represented in a cathedral had a sort of encyclopedia - you can indeed call it that - but it was a selective encyclopedia, like encyclopedias back when they were books and the people writing them were supposed to be specialists in their field. I think today the problem is that people don't know how to choose between different kinds of information.

  Eugene Green

  Cristiano, Libro, Escritura

  Fuente: www.avclub.com

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• Una vez estuve 21 días en el programa, los 21 mejores días de mi vida. Sabes, nunca manejas tu equipaje en el show, alguien más lleva tus maletas. Fue genial. Se batean bolas blancas, los estadios parecen catedrales, los hoteles tienen servicio de habitaciones y las mujeres tienen piernas largas y cerebro.

  Kevin Costner

  Dinero, Práctica, Blanco

  "Personaje de ficción: Crash Davis". "Bull Durham", www.imdb.com. 1988.

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• And so we smile on, Feeding the truths we share With a union of our souls, Cathedral slaves of our passion Which builds beauty amongst chaos.

  Scott Hastie

  Passion, Soul, Unions

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• 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

  Dream, Ice, Two

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• Vivir allí [en Horse Mesa] era como vivir en una catedral natural. Al despertarte cada mañana, salías a la calle y mirabas el lago azul y luego los acantilados de arenisca, esas sobrecogedoras capas de roca roja y amarilla modeladas a lo largo de milenios, con docenas de grietas negras que se convertían temporalmente en cascadas tras las tormentas.

  Jeannette Walls

  Mañana, Caballo, Lagos

  Jeannette Walls (2009). "Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel", p.245, Simon and Schuster

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• People said making clothes inside out was not proper. I disagreed because clothes that are inside out are as beautiful as a cathedral.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Hermosa, Ropa, Gente

  Interview with Robert Murphy, wwd.com. October 1, 2008.

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• No sólo está declinando el día, sino también el año. El sol bajo es ardiente y a la vez frío detrás de las ruinas del monasterio, y la enredadera Virginia del muro de la catedral ha derramado la mitad de sus hojas de color rojo intenso sobre el pavimento. Esta tarde ha llovido, y un escalofrío invernal recorre los charcos de las losas agrietadas y desiguales, y los olmos gigantes derraman una ráfaga de lágrimas.

  Charles Dickens

  Nature, Wall, Rain

  Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: Edwin Drood and Miscellaneous”, p.5, Cosimo, Inc.

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• There is a great deal more correctness of thought respecting manhood in bodily things than in moral things. For men's ideas of manhood shape themselves as the tower and spire of cathedrals do, that stand broad at the bottom, but grow tapering as they rise, and end, far up, in the finest lines, and in an evanishing point. Where they touch the ground they are most, and where they reach to the heaven they are least.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Ideas, Heaven

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 404, 1895.

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• I grew up in a forest. It's like a room. It's protected. Like a cathedral... it is a place between heaven and earth.

  Anselm Kiefer

  Heaven, Earth, Rooms

  "Anselm Kiefer's Remembrance of Things Past" por Kisa Lala, www.huffingtonpost.com. 19 de noviembre de 2010.

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• I have a feeling of reverence about my father being in his 80s - a feeling that I want to whisper, take soft steps, not intrude too much. He's like a stately old cathedral to me now.

  Patti Davis

  Father, Feelings, Want

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• You have started the book with this bubble over your head that contains a cathedral full of fire - that contains a novel so vast and great and penetrating and bright and dark that it will put all other novels ever written to shame. And then, as you get towards the end, you begin to realise, no, it's just this book.

  Michael Cunningham

  Book, Dark, Fire

  "Michael Cunningham: A life in writing" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. February 7, 2011.

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• The forest is the first cathedral. I felt that from the time I was a child. I credit my mother with that. I used to think it came from her Native-American side. Whichever it was, she instinctively connected with nature, and taught me that.

  Alice Walker

  Mother, Children, Native American

  "Alice in Walkerland!". Interview with Kam Williams, www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

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• Si quieres humillar a un imperio, tiene sentido mutilar sus catedrales. Son símbolos de su fe, y cuando se desmoronan y arden, nos dice que no somos tan poderosos y que no podemos estar seguros. Las Torres Gemelas del World Trade Center, plantadas en la base de la isla de Manhattan con la Estatua de la Libertad como centinela, y el Pentágono, una fortaleza de hormigón en cuclillas a orillas del Potomac, son los santuarios del dinero y el poder que nuestros enemigos pueden imaginar que nos definen. Pero eso supone que nuestra fe descansa en lo que podemos comprar y construir, y ése nunca ha sido el verdadero Dios de Estados Unidos.

  Nancy Gibbs

  Poderosa, Humilde, América

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• You need a plan for everything, whether it's building a cathedral or a chicken coop. Without a plan, you'll postpone living until you're dead.

  John Goddard

  Needs, Building, Chickens

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• The preliminaries were out of the way, the creative process was about to begin. The creative process, that mystic life force, that splurge out of which has come the Venus de Milo, the Mona Lisa, the Fantasie Impromptu, the Bayeux tapestries, Romeo and Juliet, the windows of Chartres Cathedral, Paradise Lost - and a pulp murder story by Dan Moody. The process is the same in all; if the results are a little uneven, that doesn't invalidate the basic similarity of origin.

  Cornell Woolrich

  Writing, Venus De Milo, Creative

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• What is a roofless cathedral
  to a well-built pie?

  William Maginn

  Pie, Wells, Built

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• I wish someone would ask me to design a cathedral.

  Philip Johnson

  Design, Wish, Ask Me

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• The confusion of spirit and body is quite understandable in a culture where spirit is concretized in magnificent skyscrapers, where cathedrals have become museums for tourists, where woman-flesh-devil are associated, and nature is raped for any deplorable excuse. Dieting with fierce will-power is the masculine route; dieting with love of her own nature is the feminine. Her only real hope is to care for her own body and experience it as the vessel through which her Self may be born.

  Marion Woodman

  Real, Museums, Self

  "The Owl Was a Baker's Daughter". Book by Marion Woodman, 1980.

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• The Hindu religion appears ... as a cathedral temple, half in ruins, noble in the mass, often fantastic in detail but always fantastic with a significance crumbling or badly outworn in places, but a cathedral temple in which service is still done to the Unseen and its real presence can be felt by those who enter with the right spirit.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Real, Unseen, Details

  Sri Aurobindo (1970). “Letters on Yoga”, Lotus Press (WI)

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• The great monuments are raised up like dams, pitting the logic of majesty and authority against all the shady elements: it is in the form of cathedrals and palaces that Church and State speak and impose silence on the multitudes.

  Georges Bataille

  Silence, Church, Dams

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• To fall for," "to be fallen for"--I feel in these words something unspeakably vulgar, farcical, and at the same time extraordinarily complacent. Once these expressions put in an appearance, no matter how solemn the place, the silent cathedrals of melancholy crumble, leaving nothing but an impression of fatuousness. It is curious, but the cathedrals of melancholy are not necessarily demolished if one can replace the vulgar "What a messy business it is to be fallen for" by the more literary "What uneasiness lies in being loved.

  Osamu Dazai

  Amor, Mentira, Caída

  Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.47, New Directions Publishing

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• Let brothers and sisters from one end of the world, speak in all brotherly love, all affection, and one sweetness, to their brothers and sisters in the other extremity of the world. Then we shall succeed in rearing up one vast cathedral in this world, where men of all nations and races shall glorify the Supreme Ruler of the Universe.

  Keshub Chandra Sen

  Hermano, Hombres, Raza

  Sermon preached at Mill-hill Chapel, Leeds, August 28, 1870.

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• Mass production is nothing new. Weren't cathedrals built through mass production? The pyramids?... Paintings can be painted with the left hand, the right hand, someone else's hand, or many people's hands. The scale of production is irrelevant to its content.

  Ai Weiwei

  Hands, Pyramids, People

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• Every age manifests itself by some external evidence. In a period such as ours when only a comparatively few individuals seem to be given to religion, some form other than the Gothic cathedral must be found. Industry concerns the greatest numbers-it may be true, as has been said, that our factories are our substitute for religious expression.

  Charles Sheeler

  Religious, Expression, Numbers

  Charles Brock, Charles Sheeler, National Gallery of Art (U.S.), Art Institute of Chicago, M.H. De Young Memorial Museum (2006). “Charles Sheeler: across media”, University of California Press

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