All I learned from Eliel Saarinen was how to make out an expense account
All the more I study Nature do I revere God, because Nature is all the body of God we will ever know.
Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly.
Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
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.
I wouldnt mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking.