The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
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.
Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.
A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.
Mechanization best serves mediocrity.
Freedom is from within.
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
The truth is more important than the facts.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
Less is only more where more is no good.
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.
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.
Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.
Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.
Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.