 Mechanization best serves mediocrity. |
| 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. |
| An idea is salvation by imagination. |
| Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. |
| I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture. |
| Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind. |
| A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward. |
| No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other. |
| Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall. |
| TV is chewing gum for the eyes. |
| Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles. |
| Space is the breath of art. |
| I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it. |
| The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. |
| Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun. |
| 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. |
| If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. |
| New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent. |
| Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual. |
| An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site. |
