Eero Saarinen Quotes

The purpose of architecture is to shelter and enhance man's life on earth and to fulfill his belief in the nobility of his existence.

To me the drawn language is a very revealing language: one can see in a few lines whether a man is really an architect.

Function influence but does not dictate form

I wanted to clear up the slum of legs… I wanted to make the chair all one thing again.

Confusion comes from trying to amalgamate several conflicting ideas.

What you newspaper and magazine writers, who work in rabbit time, don't understand is that the practice of architecture has to be measured in elephant time.

Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - a chair in a room a room in a house a house in an environment an environment in a city plan.