Frank Lloyd Wright
Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll Le Corbusier go write four books about it.
We should have a system of economics that is structure, that is organic tools. We do not have it. We are all hanging by our eyebrows from skyhooks economically, just as we are architecturally.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
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.
Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
"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 truth is more important than the facts.
The space within becomes the reality of the building.
The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fill citified ears - as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.
The room within is the great fact about the building.
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.
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.
The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
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 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.