Normally, people believe that, if they hear just words, that these words must lead to some thought.

Create, artist, do not talk.

What in us the women leave uncultivated, children cultivate when we retain them near us.

I have found a paper of mine among some others in which I call architecture 'petrified music.' Really there is something in this; the tone of mind produced by architecture approaches the effect of music.

One usually thinks people to be more dangerous than they are.

There is no outward sign of true courtesy that does not rest on a deep moral foundation.

Art is in itself noble; that is why the artist has no fear of what is common. This, indeed, is already ennobled when he takes it up.