Entering into the spirit of this interior, you will discover the best possible atmosphere in which to show fine paintings or listen to music. It is this atmosphere that seems to me most lacking in our art galleries, museums, music halls and theaters.

The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.

Youth is not an age thing. It's a quality. Once you've had it, you never lose it.

Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.

A man with a machine may murder or enslave millions, whereas it used to take at least thousands to murder millions. And the man behind the machine has nothing on his conscience.