I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.

God is in the details.

True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life.

We must be as familiar with the functions of our building as with our materials. We must learn what a building can be, what it should be, and also what it must not be.

Architecture has the power to create order out of unholy confusion.

The long path from material through function to creative work has only one goal: to create order out of the desperate confusion of our time.

A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.