"You say to brick, ‘What do you want, brick?’ Brick says to you, ‘I like an arch.’ If you say to brick, ‘Arches are expensive, and I can use a concrete lintel over an opening. What do you think of that, brick?’ Brick says, ‘I like an arch.’”
Read More"We are all born with a sense of what to do. Within our own singular limits we know instinctively that, give a sufficient opportunity to put this instinct into practice, we know what to do almost instantaneously, if what we do is true to our singularity.”
Read More“I like English history . . . I have one of eight volumes, and I only read the first volume and only the first chapter, because every time I read it I also read something else into it. And the reason is that I’m really interested in readying Volume Zero. And maybe, when I get through with that, Volume Minus-One.”
Read More"I do not believe that beauty can be deliberately created. Beauty evolved out of a will that may have its first expression in the archaic. Compare Paestum with the Parthenon. Archaic Paestum is the beginning. It is the time when walls parted and the columns became and Music entered architecture. Paestum inspired the Parthenon. The Parthenon is considered more beautiful, but Paestum is still more beautiful to me. It presents a beginning within which is contained all the wonder that my follow in its wake.”
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