“Nothing is art if it does not come from nature.”

“Anything created by human beings is already in the great book of nature.”

“Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.”

“Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.”

“The straight line belongs to men, the curved one to God.”

“Nothing is invented, for it's written in nature first.”

“If you want to understand what's most important to a society, don't examine its art or literature, simply look at its biggest buildings.”

“I'll never get over the factthat the buildings all light up at night,and the night comes every nightand without regret we let it go.We sleep a little and we live.That's what we do.”

“We depend on our surroundings obliquely to embody the moods and ideas we respect and then to remind us of them. We look to our buildings to hold us, like a kind of psychological mould, to a helpful...”

“Still, he was pleased to know that he could recall so much of the play and passed the rest of the journey pleasantly in reciting lines to himself, being careful not to snort.”

“Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.”