![[After viewing the Palace of Electricity at the 1900 Trocadero Exposition in Paris]
[Saint-Gaudens and Matthew Arnold] felt a railway train as power; yet they, and all other artists, constantly complained that the power embodied in a railway train could never be embodied in art. All the steam in the world could not, like the Virgin, build Chartres.](/assets/img/quote-photos/after-viewing-the-palace-of-electricity-at-the-1900-trocadero-exposition-in-pari.jpg)
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