God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn’t afterward.
Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title. – Virginia Woolf, from Jacob’s Room Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
Love of an idea is the love of God.
Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey.
When anyone becomes an authority, that is the end of him as far as development is concerned.
Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.
The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.
I’ll bridge these hills with graceful arches.
The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas.
Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly.
We should have a system of economics that is structure that is organic tools. We do not have it. We are all hanging by our eyebrows from skyhooks economically, just as we are architecturally.
A box is more a coffin for the human spirit than an inspiration.
Self fulfilling prophecies do exist in real life.
We’ve been fighting from the beginning for organic architecture. That is, architecture where the whole is to the part as the part is to the whole, and where the nature of materials, the nature of the purpose, the nature of the entire performance becomes a necessity-architecture of democracy.
Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own earth.
We have no longer an outside and an inside as two separate things. Now the outside may come inside and the inside may and does go outside. They are of each other. Form and function thus become one in design and execution if the nature of materials and method and purpose are all in unison.
We do not learn so much by our successes as we learn by failures – our own and others! Especially if we see the failures properly corrected.
Television is bubble-gum for the mind.
I think Ms. Monroe’s architecture is extremely good architecture.