Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

But they none of them create the psychological conditions in which I first saw, or desired to see, the flower.

Instead of the machine being a giant to which the man is the pygmy, we must at last reverse the proportions until man is a giant to whom the machine is the toy.

The world will very soon be divided, unless I am mistaken, into those who still go on explaining our success, and those somewhat more intelligent who are trying to explain our failure.

Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities.

Most Americans ... have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne.

Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.