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- "A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else ..."
- "A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as ..."
- "A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, ..."
- "All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable. "
- "All I learned from Eliel Saarinen was how to make out an expense account. "
- "An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking ..."
- "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. "
- "Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun. "
- "Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; ..."
- "Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy. "
- "Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose ..."
- "Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world. "
- "Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great ..."
- "Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined ..."
- "Freedom is from within. "
- "Get the habit of analysis- analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit ..."
- "Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities. "
- "God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often ..."
- "Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes. "
- "I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. "
- "I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it. "
- "I feel coming on a strange disease - humility. "
- "I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artist's ..."
- "I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from ..."
- "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 opera ..."
- "I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's ..."
- "If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. "
- "Less is only more where more is no good. "
- "Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct ..."
- "Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. ..."
- "Mechanization best serves mediocrity. "
- "Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in ..."
- "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 ..."
- "No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express ..."
- "Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture ..."
- "Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in ..."
- "Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, ..."
- "Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a ..."
- "Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, ..."
- "Simplicity and repose are qualities that measure the true value of any work of art. "
- "Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of ..."
- "Space is the breath of art. "
- "Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you. "
