Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.
Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.
There's a process to everything. If you fast track or make shortcuts in any way, and you get too much of one thing, you're just out of balance.
And the sculptor woman was so clever in the way she did it. She had the beret just about to leave my hand. So it's attached to this finger and that's what will keep it there. And I'm looking up at it, so there's no question but that that beret is going to fly.
The essence of taste is suitability. Divest the word of its prim and priggish implications, and see how it expresses the mysterious demand of the eye and mind for symmetry, harmony and order.
Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.
Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on Simplicity.
Beauty is power and elegance, right action, form fitting function, intelligence, and reasonability. And very often expressed in curves.
What frustrates me is florists who put everything at the same size on the table. I like it when there's mountains and valleys.
In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone.
