Vincent Scully Quotations

The administration dug its heels in; it wasn't going to change. President Levin was really marvelous to be able to change his mind like that in public. I am sure there were other administrators who didn't want him to do it.

I think the memorial will always be seen in that beautiful relationship to the two monuments. When you enter it, with the Lincoln Memorial at your back, you travel down into the depths, and this black wall looms over you. Then you turn, and there before you is this obelisk pointing to the sun. That relationship will never die. People will always feel something wonderful and uplifting about that.

In the face of implacable opposition from some of the most vocal critics in Britain, and at the grave and constant risk of personal unpopularity, you have courageously revived, defended and sustained the most humane principles of British and American architecture and town making,

He will be heavily identified with the 20th century at Yale.