The belief in a thing makes it happen.
A building is not just a place to be but a way to be.
It is where life is fundamental and free that men develop the vision needed to reveal the human soul in the blossoms it puts forth.
Man is a phase of nature, and only as he is related to nature does he matter, does he have any account whatever above the dust.
Imitation is always insult – not flattery.
Love is the virtue of the Heart, Sincerity is the virtue of the Mind, Decision is the virtue of the Will, Courage is the virtue of the Spirit.
When I see architecture that moves me, I hear music in my inner ear.
Youth is not an age thing. It’s a quality. Once you’ve had it, you never lose it.
Architecture isman’sgreat sense of himself embodied in a world of his own making. It may rise as high in quality only as its source because great art isgreat life.
The dynamic ideal we call democracy, gradually growing up in the human heart for two-thousand five hundred years, at least, has now every opportunity to found the natural democratic state in these United States of America by way of natural economic order and a natural, or organic, architecture.
The outcome of the city will depend on the race between the automobile and the elevator, and anyone who bets on the elevator is crazy.
Entering into the spirit of this interior, you will discover the best possible atmosphere in which to show fine paintings or listen to music. It is this atmosphere that seems to me most lacking in our art galleries, museums, music halls and theaters.
I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.
Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
Art is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use.
Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.