Sir Herbert Baker

“The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he be not a prophet, he is nothing.”

“The spirit of place is a great reality.”

“A building should grow naturally from its site and be in harmony with its surroundings.”

“There should be in all buildings a certain nobility, which is itself a source of inspiration and of reverence.”

“Sunlight is the great painter. I always try to let it into my buildings.”

“It is better to build a house too small for a year than too large for a lifetime.”

“Architecture is the printing press of all ages, and gives a history of the state of the society in which it was erected.”

“Good building is not the product of a single man's genius, but of the collaboration of many.”

“Let us build for permanence and for beauty.”

“I have always believed that the state of a nation's architecture is an unfailing index of its moral and intellectual health.”

“The work of the architect is to create a building that is not only useful and beautiful but also has a soul.”

“Simplicity, harmony, and truth are the highest aims of art.”

“The Union Buildings were for me a great romance. They were to be the symbol of the Union of the two white races in South Africa.”

“The real art is not to make a thing beautiful, but to make it beloved.”

“The great buildings of the past, the historic monuments, are not the work of any single man, but are the fruit of a people's genius.”