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.

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.

I think space, architectural space, is my thing. It's not about facade, elevation, making image, making money. My passion is creating space.

I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, 'You're finished. The shoe's finished.'