Stephen Gardiner

Stephen Gardiner

14 quotes

Known primarily as an English bishop and politician, Stephen Gardiner also happens to be one of the most quotable figures in our collection. With equal ease, Stephen Gardiner moved between Architecture and Design, finding connections others missed. Browse 17 quotes by Stephen Gardiner that cover ground from Architecture, Design, Wisdom, Knowledge, and Home. Perhaps their most recognizable line: "Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community."

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

— Stephen Gardiner

Architecture

All Quotes by Stephen Gardiner

“Good buildings come from good people, ad all problems are solved by good design.”

— Stephen Gardiner

Design

“The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.”

— Stephen Gardiner

Design

“Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.”

— Stephen Gardiner

Home

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

— Stephen Gardiner

Knowledge

“What people want, above all, is order.”

— Stephen Gardiner

Architecture

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

— Stephen Gardiner

Architecture

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

— Stephen Gardiner

Architecture

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

— Stephen Gardiner

Architecture

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

— Stephen Gardiner

Architecture

“Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world.”

— Stephen Gardiner

History

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

— Stephen Gardiner

Architecture

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

— Stephen Gardiner

Architecture

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

— Stephen Gardiner

Architecture

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

— Stephen Gardiner

Architecture