“ Art is a fairly large field where no one need jostle his neighbour, and no one need shut himself up in a corner ”
 Henry Adams, Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres (1904). copy citation

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“The group is one of the most interesting in France, another pons seclorum, an antechamber to the west portal of Chartres, which bears the same date (i 110-25) . It is the famous period of Transition, the glory of the twelfth century, the object of our pilgrimage. Art is a fairly large field where no one need jostle his neighbour, and no one need shut himself up in a corner; but, if one insists on taking a corner of preference, one might offer some excuse for choosing the Gothic Transition. The quiet, restrained strength of the Romanesque married to the graceful curves and vaulting imagination of the Gothic makes a union nearer the ideal than is often allowed in marriage.” source