I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge silence to be ignorance and affection to be art.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them for these only gave them life those the art of living well.

Friendship is unnecessary like philosophy like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?

But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean.

Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences and adorned with much and varied learning by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts.

Of the individual poems some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative.

All those involved in the construction of an architectural design from the architect to the builder have an attachment to the architecture although it's difficult to quantify the attachment.