Car designer J.A. Gregoire in Best Wheel Forward (translation of French autobiography): "I consider a number of American engines, surrounded by forests of wires, accessories, and bits and pieces, without thought for line ... nearer to beauty than the elegant Bugatti engines." Quoted in Banham, "Machine Aesthetic," Architectural Review, no. 117 (1955): 226.

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Victor Basch, in response to Behrens' presentation at the 1st Congress of Aesthetics and a General Science of Art, Berlin 1913:

"When we race through the streets of our metropolis at high speed, we can no longer see the details of buildings. Thus it seems to me that the most modern architecture should be adapted to the cinematographic character of our age. Now I ask Professor Behrens how it follows that the most modern architecture in Germany should scorn this desire? ... in Cologne I was truly dismayed when I saw department stores in the somber style of Egyptian mausoleums.... Department stores which should embody the speed of commerce and exchange ... and above all the rapid changes of fashion. ...

Does not Herr Behrens think that our department stores-the new Printemps, the Galeries Lafayette ... held together through only a few iron ribs, which look as if they could be taken down every day like houses of cards and erected elsewhere-[does he not think] that they better express the spirit of the time?"