STASIS • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Stasis

... Greek art was tranquil action; the chief aim of Gothic art was passionate rest, a peace, an eternity of intense sentiment. As I go into detail, I shall continually therefore have to oppose Gothic passion to Greek temperance; yet Gothic rigidity, [Greek: stasis] of [Greek: ekstasis], to Greek action and [Greek: eleutheria]. You see how doubly, how intimately, opposed the ideas are; yet how difficult to explain without ...

— Lectures on Landscape - Delivered at Oxford in Lent Term, 1871 • John Ruskin