The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.

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

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

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

Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

If you tilt the whole country sideways, Los Angeles is the place where everything loose will fall.

"I don't know whether you are a saint or a fool" said my lawyer. I replied "Is there a difference?"

You can't make an architect. But you can open the doors and windows toward the light as you see it.

All the more I study Nature do I revere God, because Nature is all the body of God we will ever know.

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

Consider everything in the nature of a hanging fixture a weakness, and naked radiators an abomination.

Humanity to me is not a mob. A mob is a degeneration of humanity. A mob is humanity going the wrong way.

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

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

Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall.

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

From time to time the continent shifts, and everything that isn't fastened down slides into Southern California.

The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you're an atheist, pretend how God would do it.

So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal.

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds. Remy de Gourmont An idea is salvation by imagination

Art is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use.

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

The measure of a man's culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more.

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

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.

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.

I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture.

I think Miss Monroe as architecture is extremely good architecture, and she's a very natural actress, and a very good one.

Individuality realized is the supreme attainment of the human soul, the master-master's work of art. Individuality is sacred.

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

Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own earth

Man is a phase of nature, and only as he is related to nature does he matter, does he have any account whatever above the dust.

The two most important tools an architect has are the eraser in the drawing room and the sledge hammer on the construction site.

Why should architecture or objects of art in the machine age, just because they are made by machines, have to resemble machinery?

Space. The continual becoming: invisible fountain from which all rhythms flow and to which they must pass. Beyond time or infinity

San Francisco is the only city I can think of that can survive all the things you people are doing to it and still look beautiful.

The tall modern office building is the machine pure and simple...the engine, the motor and the battleship the works of the century.

It is where life is fundamental and free that men develop the vision needed to reveal the human soul in the blossoms it puts forth.

Wherever human life is concerned, the unnatural stricture of excessive verticality cannot stand against more natural horizontality.

A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.

The best thing to do is go as far out as you can get... what you regard as 'too far' - and when others follow, as they will, move on

To know what to leave out and what to put in; just where and just how, ah, that is to have been educated in knowledge of simplicity.

The outcome of the city will depend on the race between the automobile and the elevator, and anyone who bets on the elevator is crazy.

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

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.

I wouldnt mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking.

We do not learn so much by our successes as we learn by failures - our own and others! Especially if we see the failures properly corrected.

I'm against war. Always have been, always will be. And everything connected with it, is anathema to me. I have never considered it necessary.

We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.

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