Quotes by Stephen Gardiner

About Stephen Gardiner:

Stephen Gardiner was an English bishop and politician during the English Reformation period who served as Lord Chancellor during the reign of Queen Mary I and King Philip.
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What people want, above all, is order.

Stephen Gardiner

Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.

Stephen Gardiner

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

Stephen Gardiner

Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.

Stephen Gardiner

The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.

Stephen Gardiner

The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.

Stephen Gardiner

Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.

Stephen Gardiner

Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.

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

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

Stephen Gardiner

Human requirements are the inspiration for art.

Stephen Gardiner

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

Stephen Gardiner

The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world.

Stephen Gardiner

The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.

Stephen Gardiner

The frame of the cave leads to the frame of man.

Stephen Gardiner

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

Stephen Gardiner

The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization.

Stephen Gardiner

The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center.

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

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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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Author Bio

  • NameStephen Gardiner
  • DescriptionEnglish bishop
  • Born1497
  • DiedNovember 12, 1555
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionPriest