There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet.

Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.

Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly, but take every building to pieces, and challenge every feature. Learn to distinguish the curious from the beautiful. Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind. 'Think simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

When anyone becomes an authority, that is the end of him as far as development is concerned.

The best thing to do is go as far out as you can get... what you regard as 'too far' - and when others follow, as they will, move on

If the paintings are too large, cut them in half!