A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.
To know what to leave out and what to put in; just where and just how, ah, that is to have been educated in knowledge of simplicity.
I do not believe in adding enrichment merely for the sake of enrichment. Unless it adds clearness to the enunciation of the theme, it is undesirable, for it is very little understood.
It’s easier to make changes with a pencil than a wrecking bar.
Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.
Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.
Get the habit of analysis – analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.
The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
To me, young has no meaning. It’s something you can do nothing about, nothing at all. But youth is a quality. And if you have it, you never lose it.
It is a terrific thing to get a building built that has the qualities of greatness in it.
San Francisco is the only city I can think of that can survive all the things you people are doing to it and still look beautiful.
The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears – as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.
I feel coming on a strange disease – humility.
Humanity to me is not a mob. A mob is a degeneration of humanity. A mob is humanity going the wrong way.
Architecture is essentially Human; it is the Human spirit manifesting itself. For when a Man builds, there, you’ve got him; you know exactly what, who and how that Man is.
If the paintings are too large, cut them in half!
Mechanization best serves mediocrity.
Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly.
We boast the highest standard of living when it’s only the biggest.