Why should architecture or objects of art in the machine age, just because they are made by machines, have to resemble machinery?

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

Architectural features of true democratic ground-freedom would rise naturally from topography, which means that buildings would all take on the nature and character of the ground on which in endless variety they would stand and be component part.

An expert is a man who has stopped thinking. Why should he think? He is an expert.

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

The measure of a man's culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more.