To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.

Safety razors make it hard to grow beards in America: America would be a better place if there were a few bearded, savage, terrible old men.

For most Americans, progress means accepting what is new because it is new, and discarding what is old because it is old.

Trend is not destiny.

A picture was once a rare sort of symbol, rare enough to call for attentive concentration. Now it is the actual experience that is rare, and the picture has become ubiquitous.

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Every work of art is an abstraction from time; it denies the reality of change and decay and death.