A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.
Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
I know the price of success: dedication hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
Space is the breath of art.
Early in my career...I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility... I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I've never been sorry.
Less is only more where more is no good.
Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
The truth is more important than the facts.
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.