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

On this simple unit-system [of building blocks] ruled on the low table-top all these forms were combined by the child into imaginative patter. Design was recreation! ...The virtue of all this lay in the awakening of the childmind to rhythmic structure in Nature - giving the child a sense of innate cause-and-effect otherwise far beyond child-comprehension.

Individuality realized is the supreme attainment of the human soul, the master-master's work of art. Individuality is sacred.

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

I think Miss Monroe as architecture is extremely good architecture, and she's a very natural actress, and a very good one.

No house should ever be on any hill... It should be of the hill.

Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy.