Quote#Death
If we copy, the thing never looks right [and] the same occurs with…
Quote byWilliam Burges · 1827–1881
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: William Burges "Art and Religion", in: The Church and the World: Essays on Questions of the Day, Orby Shipley ed., London, 1868, pp. 574-98; As cited in: John Pemble. Venice rediscovered. Clarendon Press, 16 mrt. 1995. p. 133.
English (original)
If we copy, the thing never looks right [and] the same occurs with regard to those buildings which do not profess to be copies; both they and the copies want spirit. They are dead bodies... We are at our wits.
— William Burges
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