Canon Quotes

The architect who really designs for a human being has to know a great deal more than just the Five Canons of Vitruvius.

His best-known piece is probably his "Canon in D." He also has 'Hexachordium Apollonis', which is also quite famous.

You have to have a canon so the next generation can come along and explode it.

In aesthetic theory it might be extremely difficult, if not quite impracticable, to draw a line between the canon of classicism, or regard for the archaic, and the canon of beauty.

I do think that memoirs by women are reviewed differently and considered somewhat outside of the canon.

A realization and a dissection of the canon gave rise to the work. But there's also a sneaking suspicion of the canon.

The Church no more gave us the New Testament canon than Isaac Newton gave us the force of gravity.

We have a rule in our franchise that there is no canon. You as a player decide what your story is.

My husband and I have watched a lot of Hitchcock movies in bulk, and there's a lot to be gained from that, from focusing strictly on an artists canon.

It is also the fate of leadership to be misunderstood. For historians, academics, writers and journalists to reflect great lives according to their own subjective canon.

In the history of the prophetic biblical canon that starts with Genesis, the Koran is by far the most tolerant of the views of other religions.

I sold all my medium format equipment in 2005 after Canon came out with the 12 megapixel EOS 1Ds.