John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
9678 Misellaneous Translations John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 9678 |
| AUTHOR: | Miscellaneous Translations |
| QUOTATION: | Architecture is frozen music. 1 |
| Note 1. Since it [architecture] is music in space, as it were a frozen music…. If architecture in general is frozen music.—Schelling: Philosophie der Kunst, pp. 576, 593. La vue d’un tel monument est comme une musique continuelle et fixée.—Madame de Staël: Corinne, livre iv. chap. 3. [back] |