An idea is salvation by imagination.
Freedom is from within.
Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.
Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
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.
The space within becomes the reality of the building.
An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.
Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.
All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.
Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.
Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.
The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect.
A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.
Mechanization best serves mediocrity.
