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

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

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.

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

Space is the breath of art.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.

An idea is salvation by imagination.

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

The heart is the first feature of working minds.

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

No stream rises higher than its source. Whatever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was.

The truth is more important than the facts.

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