Less is only more where more is no good.
Our forefathers were not only brave. I believe they were right. I believe that what they meant was that every man born had equal right to grow from scratch by way of his own power unhindered to the highest expression of himself possible to him.
All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
Youth is a circumstance you can’t do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.
Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.
The measure of a man’s culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more.
To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.
No stream rises higher than its source.
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building.
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.
Individuality realized is the supreme attainment of the human soul, the master-master’s work of art. Individuality is sacred.
Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation.
The best friend on earth of man is the tree: When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources of the earth.
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.