Monumental Proportions Quotes

From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.

The Pyramids are perfect, but you can't put the Pyramids in the middle of Manhattan. In the desert, the combination of light and form makes it perfect.

There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.

When I first came to Wakefield Cathedral, I thought, 'How does man conceive to build something like this?' It's a building that has transcended time over the centuries, and you appreciate the magnitude of humankind's power and vision. When you're inside, you feel as though the rest of the world doesn't exist.

Among these temples there is one which far surpasses all the rest, whose grandeur of architectural details no human tongue is able to describe; for within its precincts, surrounded by a lofty wall, there is room enough for a town of five hundred families.

But now I know that it is very important that all buildings should be consistent, that this is the quality of the Gothic cathedral, for instance, that we like.

St. Paul's arose like some huge mountain above the enormous mass of smaller buildings.

Gothic architecture requires individual craftsmanship. The wish to create an enclosed world for the congregation gives rise in Gothic architecture to the need to create something wherein the activity of the congregation plays a part.

Maimed but still magnificent... Europe's mightiest medieval cathedral.

A monument's dimensions should be determined by the importance to civilization of the events commemorated.

Insignificant events can take on monumental proportions when your head is full of practically nothing.