Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value.
— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe.

Not fear – Fear not good. Fear eats the soul.
—Rainer Werner Fassbinder, in Angst essen Seele auf.

You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see.
— Tadao Ando.