Who said “Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them.”?

“Art is science made clear.”

“Every artist was first an amateur.”

“No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.”

“I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.”

“Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.”

“All fine architectural values are human vales, else not valuable.”

“The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.”

“The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.”

“To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.”

“I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artist's hand even were that magic hand in true place. It has been too far exploited by industrialism and science at expense to art and true religion.”

“The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.”