Echoes

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.

The Sabbaths are our great cathedrals.

Good design is long-lasting. It avoids being fashionable and therefore never appears antiquated. Unlike fashionable design, it lasts many years — even in today's throwaway society.

That which comes after ever conforms to that which has gone before.

It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

My life is my message.

As designers, we have a great responsibility. I believe designers should eliminate the unnecessary. That means eliminating everything that is modish because this kind of thing is only short-lived.

The order and connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of things.

He plants trees whose shade another age will enjoy.

The present of things past is memory; the present of things present is sight; and the present of things future is expectation.

I don't know whether Napoleon did or did not try to get across there and I don't care. I don't know much about history, and I wouldn't give a nickel for all the history in the world. It means nothing to me. History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today.

History is largely a record of human behavior, and human behavior has not greatly changed.

Man is what he believes.

Good design is honest. It does not make a product more innovative, powerful or valuable than it really is. It does not attempt to manipulate the consumer with promises that cannot be kept.

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

Tell me what you eat, and I shall tell you what you are.

The fashion of this world passeth away and I would fain occupy myself with the things that are abiding.

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Lost Time is never found again.

Indifference towards people and the reality in which they live is actually the one and only cardinal sin in design.

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.