Martin Filler

From the outset, MoMA followed the Bauhaus's strict prohibition against design that even hinted at the decorative, a prejudice that skewed the pioneering museum's view of Modernism for decades.

Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived.

Any set of decisions about design is inevitably influenced by cultural prejudice, no matter how intent an architect might be to avoid it.

Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.

We have to base architecture on the environment.