"The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable"
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
About this Quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's quote speaks to the power of Gothic architecture to record the concept of infinity. Gothic architecture is identified by its pointed arches, ribbed vaults, and flying buttresses, which produce a sense of verticality and height. This verticality gives the impression of a boundless space, as if the structure might rise to the paradises. The intricate details of the architecture also recommend a sense of infinity, as the eye is drawn to the elaborate patterns and designs. The combination of these elements produces a sense of wonder and marvel, as if the structure is a website to a bigger, limitless world. In this method, Gothic architecture captures the concept of infinity and makes it concrete and possible.
"But I think we are seeing a resurgence of the graphic ghost story like The Others, Devil's Backbone and The Sixth Sense. It is a return to more gothic atmospheric ghost storytelling"
"Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church"
"Preacher is a book that somehow allows me time by its settling on it's characters, that sort of modern gothic western feel. You're not likely to see the boat veering too far from that"
"Well, Italy had been overrun by the War, there had practically been civil war, north and south of the Gothic Line, heavy bombing, the northern industrial cities had been bombed heavily and we had political disorder before 1948"
"The stars are the great Gothic churches: spires, naves, delicate flying buttresses, massive conventional buttresses, stained glass and grandeur, grandeur, grandeur"
