The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization. |
Less is only more where more is no good. |
The truth is more important than the facts. |
Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity. |
"Think simple" as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles. |
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense. |
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings. |
God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see. |
I feel coming on a strange disease - humility. |
The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes. |
Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll Le Corbusier go write four books about it. |
The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope. |
Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances. |
Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves. |
Television is chewing gum for the eyes. |
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. |
Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world. |
Freedom is from within. |
Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed. |
Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall. |