Every Work Of Art Is An Abstraction

The Ultimate Gift Of Conscious Life Is A Sense Of The Mystery That Encompasses It.

In The Name Of Economy A Thousand Wasteful Devices Would Be Invented; And In The Name Of Efficiency New Forms Of Mechanical Time-wasting Would Be Devised: Both Processes Gained Speed Through The Nineteenth Century And Have Come Close To The Limit Of Extravagant Futility In Our Own Time. But Labor-saving Devices Could Only Achieve Their End-that Of Freeing Mankind For Higher Functions-if The Standard Of Living Remained Stable. The Dogma Of Increasing Wants Nullified Every Real Economy And Set The Community In A Collective Squirrel-cage.

New York Is The Perfect Model Of A City, Not The Model Of A Perfect City.

The Mind Reproduces Itself By Transmitting Its Symbols To Other Intermediaries, Human And Mechanical, Than The Particular Brain That First Assembled Them.

Architecture Is Either The Prophecy Of An Unformed Society Or The Tomb Of A Finished One.