Henry Van Brunt Quote

Architecture does not reach its highest estate until it is so infused with imagination and fancy - not undisciplined imagination or capricious fancy - that the ordered fabric delights the eye of every intelligent observer and excites emotions like a poem.


Greek Lines and Other Architectural Essays, Architecture and Poetry (p. 235), Houghton Mifflin & Co. 1893


Architecture does not reach its highest estate until it is so infused with imagination and fancy - not undisciplined imagination or capricious fancy...

Architecture does not reach its highest estate until it is so infused with imagination and fancy - not undisciplined imagination or capricious fancy...

Architecture does not reach its highest estate until it is so infused with imagination and fancy - not undisciplined imagination or capricious fancy...

Architecture does not reach its highest estate until it is so infused with imagination and fancy - not undisciplined imagination or capricious fancy...