The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
'Think simple' as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.