Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement. Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even if it be hundreds of years old has a stronger inner bond with us than the lie that walks by our side.

The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.

Tattooed men who are not behind bars are either latent criminals or degenerate aristocrats. If someone who is tattooed dies in freedom, then he does so a few years before he would have committed murder.

The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.

Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.

Supply and demand regulate architectural form.