Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.

Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It is at least the geometric pattern of things, of life, of the human and social world. It is at best that magic framework of reality that we sometimes touch upon when we use the word order.

Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.

Money shows [man] new ways to cheat life. Power becomes exterior instead of interior. In these circumstances architecture becomes too difficult, building too easy.

The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.

The sense of space within the reality of any building is a new concept wherever architecture is concerned. But it is essential ancient principle just the same and is not only necessary now but implied by the ideal of democracy itself.

Simplicity and Repose are qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.