From the outset, MoMA followed the Bauhaus's strict prohibition against design that even hinted at the decorative, a prejudice that skewed the pioneering museum's view of Modernism for decades.

The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the edification and pleasure of future generations.

There is no sadder tale in the annals of architecture than the virtual disappearance of the defining architectural form of the Modern Movement - publicly sponsored housing.

Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived.

One of the most persistent yet elusive dreams of the Modern Movement in architecture has been prefabrication: industrially made structures that can be assembled at a building site.

Considering my specialization in architecture, I'm not surprised that the first graphic novel to thoroughly engage, not to say captivate, me is Chip Kidd and Dave Taylor's 'Batman: Death by Design.'

Truly great architecture always transcends its stated function, sometimes in unanticipated ways.

One of the stated goals of the postmodern movement in architecture was a greater sensitivity to the people who live in or use newly designed buildings.

Architecture was the last of the major professions to devise a formal 'cursus honorum' before its practice could be undertaken.

Always beware an unsigned architectural design.

Any set of decisions about design is inevitably influenced by cultural prejudice, no matter how intent an architect might be to avoid it.

We can not just live any how. There are consequences for every action, where evil or good.

Photography is the story I fail to put into words.

Do I catch flak because I'm so much smarter than everyone else? I don't know.

I do think there will be winners and losers in the 21st century economy.

People have learned to escape Reality very well but too often lose their way back.

[quoting someone else] the American constitution is a document designed by geniuses to be eventually interpreted by idiots

A laboratory of natural history is a sanctuary where nothing profane should be tolerated. I feel less agony at improprieties in churches than in a scientific laboratory.

No power on earth can resist the lovers of liberty who are ready not to kill opponents, but be killed by them.

I wanted to create an extremely sexy fragrance that would turn a man's head.

There are grand rewards for those who pick the high hard roads, but those rewards are hidden by years.