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.

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.'

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.