Je crois que l'automobile est aujourd'hui l'e¤  quivalent assez exact des grandes cathe¤  drales gothiques: je veux dire une grande cre¤  ation d'e¤  poque, con c° ue passionne¤  ment par des artistes inconnus, consomme¤  e dans son image, sinon dans son usage, par un peuple entier qui s'approprie en elle un objet parfaitement magique. Cars todayare almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals†the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consummated in image if not in usage bya whole populationwhich appropriates themas a purely magical object.

-Barthes, Roland
  Mythologies,'La nouvelle Citroe«  n'.

   What a misfortune it isto be bornawoman!† Why seek for knowledge, which can prove only that our wretchedness is irremediable? If a ray of light break in upon us, it is but to make darkness more visible; to show usthenew limits, the Gothic structure, theimpenetrable barriers of our prison.

-Edgeworth, Maria
  Leonora, letter1.

   A new glass age has begun, which is equal in beauty to the old one of Gothic windows.

-Korn, Arthur
  Glas im Bau und als Gebrauchsgegenstand (translated as Glass in Modern  Architecture,1967).