“Prose is architecture and the Baroque age is over.”
Ernest Hemingway
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
Similar quotes
“The sky is a tight gray sheet of Baroque prose pulled snug”
Brandi L. Bates
“Prose is architecture, not interior decoration.”
Ernest Hemingway
“Billy switched on a floor lamp. The light from the single source threw the baroque detailing of Montana’s body into sharp relief. Billy was reminded of fantastic architecture in Dresden, before it was bombed.”
Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse-Five
“Authentic architecture is not the incarnation of the spirit of the age but of the spirit, full stop.”
Léon Krier
The Architecture of Community
“Eiffel saw his Tower in the form of a serious object, rational, useful; men return it to him in the form of a great baroque dream which quite naturally touches on the borders of the irrational ... architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.”
Roland Barthes
The Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies