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The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

How accidental our existences are, really, and how full of influence by circumstance.

I just want to make my last demand in reverence to the

You say to a brick, ‘What do you want, brick?’ And

All material in nature, the mountains and the streams and the air

Also marvelous in a room is the light that comes through the

The person of old had the same brilliance of mind that we

Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college

Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball.

Greek architecture taught me that the column is where the light is

I sense Light as the giver of all presences, and material as

You can never learn anything that is not a part of yourself.

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

How precious a book is in light of the offering, in the

Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.

We are born of light. The seasons are felt through light. We

If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it’s fine with me. I’m interested

I Use The Square To Begin My Solutions Because The Square Is

The Sun does not realise how wonderful it is until after a room is made.