Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.

God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the "self-made men", who take the credit.

What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.

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.

This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the world.

Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today.

Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.