An aphorism is nothing else but the slightest
QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON HERITAGE
Stands the Church clock at ten to three? And is there honey still for tea?
Rupert Brooke (1887-1915, British poet)
I love art, and I love history, but it is living art and living history that I love. It is in the interest of living art and living history that I oppose so-called restoration. What history can there be in a building bedaubed with ornament, which cannot at the best be anything but a hopeless and lifeless imitation of the hope and vigor of the earlier world?
William Morris (1834-1896, British artist, writer, printer)
It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have... insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.
John Ruskin (1819-1900, British critic, social theorist)
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