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.
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.