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It's easier to make changes with a pencil than a wrecking bar.
The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest.
Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
No house should ever be on any hill... It should be of the hill.
A box is more a coffin for the human spirit than an inspiration.
All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
When I see architecture that moves me, I hear music in my inner ear
We boast the highest standard of living when it's only the biggest.
Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
I doubt if there is anything in the world uglier than a Midwestern city.
I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas.
All I learned from Eliel Saarinen was how to make out an expense account
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.
More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building.
Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
If you foolishly ignore beauty, then you will soon find yourself without it.
I know we can't have a great architecture while it is only for the landlord.
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
I don't build a house without predicting the end of the present social order.
Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.
The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.
Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy.
Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it.
Youth is not an age thing. It's a quality. Once you've had it, you never lose it.
An expert is a man who has stopped thinking. Why should he think? He is an expert.
They turned the country up on its side, and everything loose fell into California.
A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.
If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
Simplicity and Repose are qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme.
Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.
You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.
Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.
Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.
Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it.
You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.
It is a terrific thing to get a building built that has the qualities of greatness in it.
I attend the greatest of all Churches. I put a capital N on Nature, and call it my Church.
Taste is a matter of ignorance. If you know what you are tasting, you don't have to taste.
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
When anyone becomes an authority, that is the end of him as far as development is concerned.
We should learn from the snail: it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional.
I never design a building before I've seen the site and met the people who will be using it.