The Old (Notre Dame)

Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stand on the right spot; that it be securely founded; that it be successfully executed. -Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Elective Affinities, 1808

The New (The Pompidou)

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate. -Soren Kierkegaard, Either/Or, 1843 (I thought the three white "vents" in the lower left corner appeared as an amusing "echo" to the street lamps in the previous picture...)

The Old (celing, Sainte-Chapelle)

I hope I never get so old I get religious. -Ingmar Bergman, International Herald Tribune, 1989

The New (escalators, The Pompidou)

The New Age? It's just the old age stuck in a microwave oven for fifteen seconds. -James Randi, Observer (The transparent Pompidou is, again, an amusing "echo" of the famed glass church -- Sainte Chapelle in the previous picture...)

The Old Facing the New (Notre Dame)

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death. -Desiderius Erasmus, Praise of Folly, 1509

The New Over the Old (Eiffel Tower)

The New in the Old (the Louvre)

The best part of the the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully. -Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, 1955