No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
'Think simple' as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.