We do not learn so much by our successes as we learn by failures - our own and others! Especially if we see the failures properly corrected.

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

Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.

True ornament is not a matter of prettifying externals. It is organic with the structure it adorns, whether a person, a building, or a park. At its best it is an emphasis of structure, a realization in graceful terms of the nature of that which is ornamented

It is a terrific thing to get a building built that has the qualities of greatness in it.

The space within becomes the reality of the building.

An expert is a man who has stopped thinking. Why should he think? He is an expert.