"Primariness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... made to this second proposition, arise, as far as I remember, merely from a confusion of the idea of essentialness or primariness with the idea of nobleness. The essential thing in a building,—its first virtue,—is that it be strongly built, and fit for its uses. The noblest thing in a building, and its highest virtue, is that it be nobly ...
— Lectures on Architecture and Painting - Delivered at Edinburgh in November 1853 • John Ruskin |
