This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become the model for ….

With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption..

Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today..

Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building..

Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over..

There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to it's early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization.….

The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events..

Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved..

The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers..

The essentially unchangeable established order of things, slowly disappeared and was forgotten for a while completely....

Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expre….

Tahiti has been spoiled for many years, but Bali is one of the few cultures with origins in one of the great ancient cultures which is still alive..

Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that mov….

The heart, not the head, must be the guide..

The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe..

The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land..

The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process..

Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind..

It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over..

The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existe….

No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ec….