Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

White is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

Gilbert K. Chesterton