“Architectural drawings may look beautiful and be admired by critics but to be good, they have to work in daily use.”

“We are made with the atoms of the things that we consider beautiful or those which we admire and hate on a daily basis.”

“I want to see the gardens and palace of the Alcazar where the Moorish Kings used to live. It is as perfect an architecture as the Egyptian, Greek or Gothic and just as beautiful, maybe more beautiful and it is well built for it looks as new as if it had just been done. We have to thanks these Moors for our greatest sciences, they did the big work for us, they started them, Algebra, Chemistry, Astronomy. They are our masters.”

“It is not bright colors but good drawing that makes figures beautiful.”

“If in looking at a picture you have been profoundly moved by it, but have not noticed the color or drawing, you may be sure that they are technically perfect.”

“The decorator of Las Colimas must have been a great admirer of both early Aztec and late Taco Bell architectural styles.”

“Nature is not primarily functional. It is primarily beautiful. Stop for a moment and let that sink in. We’re so used to evaluating everything (and everyone) by their usefulness that this thought will take a minute or two to begin to dawn on us. Nature is not primarily functional. It is primarily beautiful. Which is to say, beauty is in and of itself a great and glorious good, something we need in large and daily doses.”

“Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it you are lost.”

“Until you look forward to criticism, your Work’s not done.”

“Remember crime against property is not real crime. People look at an oil painting and admire the use of brushstrokes to convey meaning. People look at a graffiti painting and admire the use of a drainpipe to gain access.”