Christopher Wren Quote

Position is necessary for perfecting beauty. There are only two beautiful positions of strait lines, perpendicular and horizontal; this is from nature, and consequently necessity, no other than upright being firm.


Lives of Eminent Persons, Sir Christopher Wren (p. 30), Baldwin & Cradock. 1833


Position is necessary for perfecting beauty. There are only two beautiful positions of strait lines, perpendicular and horizontal; this is from...

Position is necessary for perfecting beauty. There are only two beautiful positions of strait lines, perpendicular and horizontal; this is from...

Position is necessary for perfecting beauty. There are only two beautiful positions of strait lines, perpendicular and horizontal; this is from...

Position is necessary for perfecting beauty. There are only two beautiful positions of strait lines, perpendicular and horizontal; this is from...