It is impossible as impossible as to raise the dead to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman can never be recalled.
It seems a fantastic paradox but it is nevertheless a most important truth that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.
Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers the best of them in doubt and misery the most in plodding hesitation doing as well as they can what practical work lies at hand.
Music when healthy is the teacher of perfect order and when depraved the teacher of perfect disorder.
Art is not a study of positive reality it is the seeking for ideal truth.
Fine art is that in which the hand the head and the heart of man go together.
Give a little love to a child and you get a great deal back.
He that would be angry and sin not must not be angry with anything but sin.
Skill is the unified force of experience intellect and passion in their operation.
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.