Henry Van Brunt - Greek Lines and Other Architectural Essays (1893)

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Architectural ideas and motifs excite in the minds of architects certain emotions, which are rarely shared in their fullness by the laity.

Henry Van Brunt

Painting has something to say which sculpture cannot say; architecture has a message which cannot be repeated in music; and vice versa.

Henry Van Brunt

The language of architectural forms is one of infinite artifice; it is born of traditions, is shaped by conventions, and speaks in parables and apologues, which are patent only to those who have studied the growth of thought in the development of its signs and symbols.

Henry Van Brunt

If a monument of architecture is like a "song without words," it certainly touches the mind and heart as much as it moves the senses.

Henry Van Brunt

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.

Henry Van Brunt