The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail. – Stephen Gardiner
The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom. – Stephen Gardiner
Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown. – Stephen Gardiner
French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture like Roman design, it looks to the community. – Stephen Gardiner
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. – John Ruskin