“It was Chicago with its World's Fair which vivified the national desire for civic beauty.”

“Make no little plans they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. ”

“Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing ins...”

“Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”

“All established order forms a line of resistance against the threat of rupture and places its meager forces at the service of continuity. That everything should continue as usual is the bourgeois s...”

“I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.”

“There is a whole world out there waiting to have fun. Show them how it's done!”

“I would rather lie facedown on the ground and use my body as a bridge, than stand proud and tall and use my body as a wall.”

“You don't need to be in the light to be a beacon of beauty.For Marta”

“Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.”