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.

In our entrancement with the motorcar, we have forgotten how much more efficient and how much more flexible the footwalker is.

Geneva has the sleepy tidiness of a man who combs his hair while yet in his pyjamas.

Unfortunately, once an economy is geared to expansion, the means rapidly turn into an end and "the going becomes the goal."

He who touches the soil of Manhattan and the pavement of New York, touches, whenever he knows or not, Walt Whitman.

As for the various kinds of montage photography, they are in reality not photography at all but a kind of painting in which photography is used - as pastiches of textiles are used in crazy-quilts - to form a mosaic. Whatever value the montage may have derives from painting rather than the camera.

Trend is not destiny.