"My wife is a painter, and a very good one... and we’ve been working together for, oh, twelve years now, I guess...and…"

"I have never been forced to accept compromises but I have willingly accepted constraints."

"Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects... the quality of the connections is the key to quality per se."

"One could describe Design as a plan for arranging elements to accomplish a particular purpose."

"[Design is] an expression of purpose. It may, if it is good enough, later be judged as art."

"Design may be a solution to some industrial problems."

"Q: Does the creation of Design admit constraint? Design depends largely on constraints. Q: What constraints? The sum …"

"Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might chang…"

"Designers should only innovate as a last resort."

"There are many good and helpful books worth careful reading—among which may be mentioned: 's How to Lay out a Garden,…"