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.
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.
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
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.
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.
Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall.
I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it.
Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
The space within becomes the reality of the building.
Space is the breath of art.
The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
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.
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.
A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.
