Eero Saarinen Quotes
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.
To me the drawn language is a very revealing language: one can see in a few lines whether a man is really an architect.
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 time.
Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - a chair in a room a room in a house a house in an environment an environment in a city plan.
