Quotes On Architecture, construction, planning

… it is easy to distinguish between the parts which are essential to the composition of an architectural Order and those which have been introduced by necessity or have been added by caprice. The parts that are essential are the cause of beauty, the parts introduced by necessity cause every license, the parts added by caprice cause every fault.

Any device - even if approved by great men - which is either contrary to nature or cannot be convincingly explained is a bad device and must be proscribed.

I have always believed that what is originally an abuse does not cease to be one by having become customary.