Saarinen Quotes

#1. All I learned from Eliel Saarinen was how to make out an expense account

Frank Lloyd Wright

#2. Art was born as a desire, not as a demand.

Eliel Saarinen

#3. I rolled up my sleeve. Penned on my arm in my own writing: If I prove I'm not selfish, Daniel will love me.

Jordan Castillo Price

#4. Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.

Woody Allen

#5. Function influence but does not dictate form

Eero Saarinen

#6. There are lots of people who give their all and have that inner glow on. It's a shame that majority of them are under seven years old.

Esa Saarinen

#7. Confusion comes from trying to amalgamate several conflicting ideas.

Eero Saarinen

#8. I wanted to clear up the slum of legs ... I wanted to make the chair all one thing again.

Eero Saarinen

#9. 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,

Eero Saarinen

#10. Philosophy is a state of fermentation a process without final outcome.

Esa Saarinen

#11. It may well be that we talk about sex more than anything else; we set our minds to the task; we convince ourselves that were have never said enough on the subject ... where sex is concerned the most long-winded, the most impatient of societies is our own.

Michel Foucault

#12. Everyone agrees to that; but when we come to define truth, dissension starts.

Samuel E. Morison

#13. 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 a rectangular box nor a dome seemed right on this site or for this purpose. But here, at the edge of the Mississippi River, a great arch did seem right.

Eero Saarinen

#14. The opposite of creativity is cynicism

Esa Saarinen

#15. 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.

Eero Saarinen

#16. 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 repeated in every part of its interior so that wherever you are, inside or outside, the building sings with the same message.

Eero Saarinen

#17. If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.

Dorothy Parker

#18. 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.

Eliel Saarinen

#19. Sometimes spending time with someone who is perceived as 'successful' can make us feel less successful.

Simon Sinek

#20. To me the drawn language is a very revealing language: one can see in a few lines whether a man is really an architect.

Eero Saarinen