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

Space is the breath of art.

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

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

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

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

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.

A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.

Freedom is from within.

Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

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.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Mechanization best serves mediocrity.

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.

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.

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.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.

The space within becomes the reality of the building.

An idea is salvation by imagination.

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.