“What finally is beauty? Certainly nothing that can be calculated or me...” — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Quote

“What finally is beauty? Certainly nothing that can be calculated or measured. It is always something imponderable, something that lies between things.”

“What would life be like if everybody insisted you must have actually built such-and-such a thing by yourself? I'd be an old man and have nothing to show for the aging.”

“A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.”

“Take care of your inner, spiritual beauty. That will reflect in your face.”

“Black beauty - he's a dark horse.”

“In chess, there are some extremely beautiful things in the domain of movement, but not in the visual domain. It's the imagining of the movement or of the gesture that makes the beauty in this case.”