Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.
Architectural features of true democratic ground-freedom would rise naturally from topography, which means that buildings would all take on the nature and character of the ground on which in endless variety they would stand and be component part.
If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day’s work.
True ornament is not a matter of prettifying externals. It is organic with the structure it adorns, whether a person, a building, or a park. At its best it is an emphasis of structure, a realization in graceful terms of the nature of that which is ornamented.
A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.
All the more I study Nature do I revere God, because Nature is all the body of God we will ever know.
The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
Freedom is from within.
Building becomes architecture only when the mind of man consciously takes it and tries with all his resources to make it beautiful, to put concordance, sympathy with nature, and all that into it. Then you have architecture.
An architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.
Space. The continual becoming: invisible fountain from which all rhythms flow and to which they must pass. Beyond time or infinity.
If it sells, it’s art.
Every great architect is – necessarily – a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy.
I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it.
Nature is all the body of God we mortals will ever see.
Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
Imitate nothing except principle.