No artist will tolerate the world for one second as it is.

Nobody thanks a witty man for politeness when he puts himself on a par with a society in which it would not be polite to show one's wit.

All good things were formerly bad things; every original sin has turned into an original virtue.

In architecture the pride of man, his triumph over gravitation, his will to power, assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms.

All that philosophers have handled for millennia has been conceptual mummies; nothing actual has ever escaped from their hands alive.

There's no defense against stupidity.

Discontent is the seed of ethics.