Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.

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.

The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.

Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.

Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.

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

You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.