Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.

Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms.

Life is rich, always changing, always challenging, and we architects have the task of transmitting into wood, concrete, glass and steel, of transforming human aspirations into habitable and meaningful space.

I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.

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.

We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity.

Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.