Abstraction enables capacities to be separated from specific problems, to be generalized, and flexibly adapted to other problems.
- John Heskett
L'exactitude n'est pas la verité.
- Matisse
Good design is good fit between form and context
- Christopher Alexander
Style by its very nature includes some features and excludes others: this is the essence of style, without exclusivity there is no style, without style there remains but fleeting fashion.
- Cliff Moughtin
Space is the medium of the urban experience.
- Roger Trancik
Criticism is not to judge works by a general ideal, but is to search out the individual ideal of every work.
- Friedrich Schlegel.
The grid is “an organized set of modules that allow for manipulation and creativity.”
- Hannah Higgins
Public space is the stage upon which the drama of communal life unfolds.
The mark of a great City is in how it treats its ordinary spaces, not its special ones
- Aaron M. Renn
...all art represents, in part, psychological struggle with the work of our parents’ generation...
- Nicolai Ourossoff
Rejections and revivals of the classical tradition are an enduring part of architectural history.
- Ada Louise Huxtable
The beauty [of a painting] does not really lie in the picture, but in the subject matter
- Gombrich