Stephen Gardiner Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

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“The exterior cannot do without the interior since it is from this, as from life, that it derives much of its inspiration and character.”
-- Stephen Gardiner

#Inspiration #Character
“The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden”
-- Stephen Gardiner

#Garden #Land #Design
“Good buildings come from good people, ad all problems are solved by good design.”
-- Stephen Gardiner

#People #Design #Problem
“It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings.”
-- Stephen Gardiner

#Peace #Men #Shapes
“The Industrial Revolution was another one of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.”
-- Stephen Gardiner

#Civilization #Revolution #Stories
“The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.”
-- Stephen Gardiner

#Architecture #Remember #Egyptian
“In the East there is a gap between the top of a wall and underside of a roof; it acts as a screen, and the Chinese were able to use it as they wished.”
-- Stephen Gardiner

#Wall #Chinese #Use
“Human requirements are the inspiration for art.”
-- Stephen Gardiner

#Art #Inspiration #Requirements
“The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.”
-- Stephen Gardiner

#Fog #Light #Delicacy
“The frame of the cave leads to the frame of man.”
-- Stephen Gardiner

#Men #Caves
“The Egyptian tomb was the outcome of the Mesopotamian influence and followed from the religious crisis the country had undergone.”
-- Stephen Gardiner

#Country #Religious #Outcomes
“The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages.”
-- Stephen Gardiner

#Dwelling #House #Age
“In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts.”
-- Stephen Gardiner

#Art #Space #Roles
“The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.”
-- Stephen Gardiner

#Taken #Steps #Steps Forward
“Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.”
-- Stephen Gardiner

#Today #Lessons #Architecture
“The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world.”
-- Stephen Gardiner

#House #World #Architecture
“What people want, above all, is order.”
-- Stephen Gardiner

#Order #People #Want
“Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world.”
-- Stephen Gardiner

#Men #Views #Order
“The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.”
-- Stephen Gardiner

#Logic #Architecture #Formulas
“The chief concern of the French Impressionists was the discovery of balance between light and dark.”
-- Stephen Gardiner

#Dark #Discovery #Light
“Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.”
-- Stephen Gardiner

#Home #Land #Sea
“The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center.”
-- Stephen Gardiner

#Men #Swag #Circles
“Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads.”
-- Stephen Gardiner

#Past #Ideas #Nomad
“Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.”
-- Stephen Gardiner

#England #United States #Architecture
“Up until the War of the Roses there had been continual conflict in England.”
-- Stephen Gardiner

#War #Rose #England
“The Romans used every housing form known today and they have a remarkably modern look.”
-- Stephen Gardiner

#Looks #Today #Modern
“The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature.”
-- Stephen Gardiner

#Men #Caves #Mystery
“The mandala describes balance. This is so whatever the pictorial form.”
-- Stephen Gardiner

#Balance #Form #Pictorial
“The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach.”
-- Stephen Gardiner

#House #Influential #Approach
“The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition.”
-- Stephen Gardiner

#House #Tree #Gains

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