“A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times : It is a beautiful catastrophe.”

“The home should be the treasure chest of living.”

“I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.”

“To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.”

“Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.”

“A house is a machine for living in.”

“Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.”

“The present moment is creative creating with an unheard-of intensity.”

“The materials of city planning are sky space trees steel and cement in that order and in that hierarchy.”

“Genius is personal decided by fate but it expresses itself by means of system. There is no work of art without system.”

“A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times : It is a beautiful catastrophe.”