Karl Friedrich Schinkel quotes
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“Indifference to the fine arts comes close to barbarism.”
-- Karl Friedrich SchinkelSource : Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Architecture, Vol. 11, p. 94; also in "The Dictionary of Art", Vol. 28 (1996) by Jane Turner, 1976.
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“Schinkel's aesthetic was not a crudely materialistic "truth to material" affair... but rather an attempt to inform iron and other industrial materials with an appropriate beauty through the direct collaboration of the artist in the manufacturing process.”
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“Schinkel was not arbitrary in his use of historical modes but rather eclectic in the best sense of the word. He could search the past for its conspicuous successes using them both freely and discursively as the basis for a contemporary architecture.”
-- Karl Friedrich Schinkel
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“He had opened his heart to the sublime indifference of the universe”
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“But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference.”
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“Indifference to the fine arts comes close to barbarism.”
Source : Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Architecture, Vol. 11, p. 94; also in "The Dictionary of Art", Vol. 28 (1996) by Jane Turner, 1976.
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“Truth and trust are the means by which civilization holds off barbarism.”
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