Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.

I do not believe in adding enrichment merely for the sake of enrichment. Unless it adds clearness to the enunciation of the theme, it is undesirable, for it is very little understood.

More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building.

A vital difference between the professional man and a man of business is that money making to the professional man should, by virtue of his assumption, be incidental; to the businessman it is primary. Money has its limitations; while it may buy quantity, there is something beyond it and that is quality.

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

I'm against war. Always have been, always will be. And everything connected with it, is anathema to me. I have never considered it necessary.

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.