The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach.

The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature.

It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings.

The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.

The Egyptian tomb was the outcome of the Mesopotamian influence and followed from the religious crisis the country had undergone.

Houses mean a creation, something new, a shelter freed from the idea of a cave.

Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.