If you would see how interwoven it is in the warp and woof of civilization ... go at night-fall to the top of one of the down-town steel giants and you may see how in the image of material man, at once his glory and his menace, is this thing we call a city.

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

No stream rises higher than its source

I do not believe in adding enrichment merely for the sake of enrichment. Unless it adds clearness to the enunciation of the theme, it is undesirable, for it is very little understood.

An idea is salvation by imagination.

Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation

All I learned from Eliel Saarinen was how to make out an expense account