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

"A free American 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.”

"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."

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

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

"Mechanization best serves mediocrity."

"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."

“No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill, belonging to it. Hill and house should live together, each the happier for the other."

"No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built."

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

“Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to everyone and married to the ground."

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

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

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

"Space is the breath of art."

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

"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."

"The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind."

"The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes."

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

"The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings."

"The room within is the great fact about the building."

The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head fill citified ears -as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his hear. He is sidewalk happy."

"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."

"'Think simple' as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest of terms, getting back to first principles."

"Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic."

"True ornament is not a matter of prettifying externals. It is organic with the structure it adorns, whether a person, a building or a park."

"We should have a system of economics that is structure that is organic tools. We do not have it. We are all hanging by our eyebrows from skyhooks economically, just as we are architecturally."

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

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

"An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking ball at the site."

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

"Buildings, too, are children of the Earth and Sun."

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

"Freedom is from within."

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

"I feel a strange disease coming on - humility."

"I think Ms. Monroe's architecture is extremely good architecture."

"Less is only more where more is no good."

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

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

"Architecture is life, or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or ever will be lived."

"If you foolishly ignore beauty, you'll soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life."

"An idea is salvation by imagination."

"TV is chewing gum for the eyes."

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

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

"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."

"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature."