Famous quotes containing the words culture and/or buildings:
“When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest.”
—Karl Kraus (1874–1936)
“The American who has been confined, in his own country, to the sight of buildings designed after foreign models, is surprised on entering York Minster or St. Peter’s at Rome, by the feeling that these structures are imitations also,—faint copies of an invisible archetype.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)