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"Think simple" as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole...  
A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or...   Politics
A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he i...  
A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fo...  
All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.  
All I learned from Eliel Saarinen was how to make out an expense accou...  
An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, ...  
An expert is a man who has stopped thinking - he knows!  
An idea is salvation by imagination.  
Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.   Art
Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.  
Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custa...  
Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or m...  
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritica...  
Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left...  
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a gr...  
Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function...  
Freedom is from within.  
Get the habit of analysis- analysis will in time enable synthesis to b...  
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the neces...  
God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it h...  
Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into pr...  
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.   Nature
I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone wou...  
I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.  
I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative ...  
I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life...  
I think Ms. Monroe's architecture is extremely good architecture.  
I wouldn't mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded o...  
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fool...  
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button fin...  
Less is only more where more is no good.  
Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism...  
Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of bett...  
Mechanization best serves mediocrity.  
Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspir...  
New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a...  
No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the ...  
No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build coul...  
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. L...  
Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of ...  
Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinn...  
Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a ...   Business
Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no qual...  
Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of...  
Space is the breath of art.  
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail yo...  
Television is chewing gum for the eyes.  
The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the ...  
The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind  
The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that ...  
The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.  
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we ...  
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise...   Art
The room within is the great fact about the building.  
The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified h...  
The space within becomes the reality of the building.  
The truth is more important than the facts.  
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.  
Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los A...  
Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.  
True ornament is not a matter of prettifying externals. It is organic ...  
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.  
We should have a system of economics that is structure, that is organi...  
Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll Le Corbusier go write...  
Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves