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The space within becomes the reality of the building.

A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.

Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.

Nature is my manifestation of God.
I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.

More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building.

If you're going to have centralization, why not have it!

It is a terrific thing to get a building built that has the qualities of greatness in it.

When anyone becomes an authority, that is the end of him as far as development is concerned.

I wouldnt mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking.

Humanity to me is not a mob. A mob is a degeneration of humanity. A mob is humanity going the wrong way.

Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.

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.

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

The tall modern office building is the machine pure and simple ... the engine, the motor and the battleship the works of the century.

Doctors bury their mistakes, Architects cover them with ivy

From time to time the continent shifts, and everything that isn't fastened down slides into Southern California.

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.

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.

A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.

Imitation is always insult--not flattery.

The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.

Less is more only when more is too much.

Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall.

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.

Why should architecture or objects of art in the machine age, just because they are made by machines, have to resemble machinery?

I know we can't have a great architecture while it is only for the landlord.

The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.

Mechanization best serves mediocrity.

Good taste is not a substitute for knowledge

The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you're an atheist, pretend how God would do it.

I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.

It is where life is fundamental and free that men develop the vision needed to reveal the human soul in the blossoms it puts forth.

Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.

Individuality realized is the supreme attainment of the human soul, the master-master's work of art. Individuality is sacred.

The room within is the great fact about the building.

It's easier to make changes with a pencil than a wrecking bar.

Each material has its own message.

Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.

I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture.

If you foolishly ignore beauty, then you will soon find yourself without it.

Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey.

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

Space is the breath of art.

Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

Space. The continual becoming: invisible fountain from which all rhythms flow and to which they must pass. Beyond time or infinity

If it sells, it's art.

Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.

Life is truth...

The best thing to do is go as far out as you can get ... what you regard as 'too far'
and when others follow, as they will, move on.

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Imitate nothing except principle.

Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy.

Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly.

All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.

What I like best about San Francisco is San Francisco.

A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

To know what to leave out and what to put in; just where and just how, ah, that is to have been educated in knowledge of simplicity.

We boast the highest standard of living when it's only the biggest.

Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.

Television is bubble-gum for the mind

'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.

Youth is not an age thing. It's a quality. Once you've had it, you never lose it.

Taste is a matter of ignorance. If you know what you are tasting, you don't have to taste.

Art is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use.

Love of an idea is the love of God.

The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.

Prison house for the soul

Consider everything in the nature of a hanging fixture a weakness, and naked radiators an abomination.

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest.

Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism ... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.

An idea is salvation by imagination

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly.

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.

An expert is a man who has stopped thinking. Why should he think? He is an expert.

I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.

If you tilt the whole country sideways, Los Angeles is the place where everything loose will fall.

We do not learn so much by our successes as we learn by failures - our own and others! Especially if we see the failures properly corrected.

Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation

You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.

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.

All I learned from Eliel Saarinen was how to make out an expense account

Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.

We should learn from the snail: it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional.

I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme.

San Francisco is the only city I can think of that can survive all the things you people are doing to it and still look beautiful.

Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.

I'll bridge these hills with graceful arches

No house should ever be on any hill ... It should be of the hill.

All the more I study Nature do I revere God, because Nature is all the body of God we will ever know.

I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it.

The best friend on earth of man is the tree: When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources of the earth.