Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.
The architect should strive continually to simplify the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.
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.
I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.
Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.
New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.
No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.
Early in life I had to choose between arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
If it sells, it's art.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
The space within becomes the reality of the building.
Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them.
An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.
Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.