Eero Saarinen Quotes
- To me the drawn language is a very revealing language: one can see in a few lines whether a man is really an architect.
- The purpose of architecture is to shelter and enhance man’s life on earth and to fulfill his belief in the nobility of his existence,
- I wanted to clear up the slum of legs… I wanted to make the chair all one thing again.
- What you newspaper and magazine writers, who work in rabbit time, don't understand is that the practice of architecture has to be measured in elephant…
- I have come to the conviction that once one embarks on a concept for a building, this concept has to be exaggerated and overstated and…
- The major concern ...was to create a monument which would have lasting significance and would be a landmark of our time... Neither an obelisk nor…
- Confusion comes from trying to amalgamate several conflicting ideas.