Greek architecture is geometry. Its temples are diagrams in marble, and not appeals to the imagination, like the Gothic - they are powers of the square and cube.


The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Lectures and Biographical Sketches (Volume 10), Notes (p. 545)

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Greek architecture is geometry. Its temples are diagrams in marble, and not appeals to the imagination, like the Gothic - they are powers of the...

Greek architecture is geometry. Its temples are diagrams in marble, and not appeals to the imagination, like the Gothic - they are powers of the...

Greek architecture is geometry. Its temples are diagrams in marble, and not appeals to the imagination, like the Gothic - they are powers of the...

Greek architecture is geometry. Its temples are diagrams in marble, and not appeals to the imagination, like the Gothic - they are powers of the...