No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.

Our settlement of land is without regard to the best use of land.

The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process.

Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.

Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them.

Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad.

We can appreciate but not really understand the medieval town. We cannot comprehend its compactness, the contiguity of all its buildings as a single uninterrupted whole.