The mind is like an umbrella. Its most useful when open.

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

Limitation makes the creative mind inventive.

We want to create the purely organic building, boldly emanating its inner laws, free of untruths or ornamentation.

How can we expect our students to become bold and fearless in thought and action if we encase them in sentimental shrines feigning a culture which has long since disappeared?

The ultimate aim of all artistic activity is building! ... Architects, sculptors, painters, we must all get back to craft! ... The artist is a heightened manifestation of the craftsman. ... Let us form ... a new guild of craftsmen without the class divisions that set out to raise an arrogant barrier between craftsmen and artists! ... Let us together create the new building of the future which will be all in one: architecture and sculpture and painting.

However often the thread may be torn out of your hands, you must develop enough patience to wind it up again and again.