Greek Architecture Quotes

How can any educated person stay away from the Greeks? I have always been far more interested in them than in science.

Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.

The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.

Greek architecture taught me that the column is where the light is not, and the space between is where the light is. It is a matter of no-light, light, no-light, light. A column and a column brings light between them. To make a column which grows out of the wall and which makes its own rhythm of no-light, light, no-light, light: that is the marvel of the artist.

I like reading, free diving and hiking. But my favorite thing to do is travel anywhere in Greece. I love everything about that place.

In the world over, the very name of our country is immediately associated with the Parthenon.

I had the privilege of living in Greece in the early 1970s.

I love Greece. It's really cool in the summer.

Greece was a muse. It inspired creativity in magical ways that I can't even begin to understand or explain.

That period of history has always fascinated me - Greek history, Greek mythology.

The birthplace of 'Western' civilization is generally agreed to be Greece, and its birth date is generally agreed to be some time during the 6th century B.C.E. Obviously, there is not one single dramatic moment that definitively started the whole thing.

Greece – the mother of all democracies

Greek architecture is the flowering of geometry.

It is great to be Greek, because I have one of the best heritages in the world.

Greece is so beautiful and inspiring.

Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.

Athens was a great experience and I'll always be able to look back on it and say I achieved my ultimate goal in gymnastics.

In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs. RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks Greek architecture is the perfect flowering of geometry.

Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.