Architecture is, like music, a metaphysical art; it deals with the abstract qualities of proportion, balance of form, and direction of line, but without any imitation of the concrete facts of nature.


Architecture for General Readers, Architecture for General Readers (pp. 6-7), Charles Scribner's Sons. 1896

Henry Heathcote Statham Quotes

Architecture is, like music, a metaphysical art; it deals with the abstract qualities of proportion, balance of form, and direction of line, but...

Architecture is, like music, a metaphysical art; it deals with the abstract qualities of proportion, balance of form, and direction of line, but...

Architecture is, like music, a metaphysical art; it deals with the abstract qualities of proportion, balance of form, and direction of line, but...

Architecture is, like music, a metaphysical art; it deals with the abstract qualities of proportion, balance of form, and direction of line, but...