Stephen Gardiner Quotes

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The mandala describes balance. This is so whatever the pictorial form.

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The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.

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The Egyptian tomb was the outcome of the Mesopotamian influence and followed from the religious crisis the country had undergone.

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The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid.

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Houses mean a creation, something new, a shelter freed from the idea of a cave.

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The Romans used every housing form known today and they have a remarkably modern look.

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The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach.

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The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor.

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French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community.

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It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process.

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In the East there is a gap between the top of a wall and underside of a roof; it acts as a screen, and the Chinese were able to use it as they wished.

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Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads.

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It is hardly surprising that the Georgian domestic style emerges as the most remarkable in the world.

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The further forward we go, the further back we have to explore in order to go forward again.

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In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts.

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In Japanese houses the interior melts into the gardens of the outside world.

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The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages.

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In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.

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The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.

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The chief concern of the French Impressionists was the discovery of balance between light and dark.

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It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings.

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