If capitalism is fair then unionism must be. If men have a right to capitalize their ideas and the resources of their country, then that implies the right of men to capitalize their labor.

Mechanization best serves mediocrity.

in 1943, many Germans went to the Wright household and held musicals.

A free America… 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...

The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.

The circus tent is not architecture.

Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders’ spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.

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

The space within becomes the reality of the building.

God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the...

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

I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.

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.

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

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.

Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves

My two most valuable tools are an eraser in the drawing room and a sledge hammer on the build site.

I wouldn’t mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines.

I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artist’s hand even were that magic hand in true place. It has been too far exploited by industrialism and science at...

Less is only more where more is no good.

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.

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

Well, now that he’s finished one building, he’ll [Le Corbusier] go write four books about it.

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

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

All I learned from Eliel Saarinen was how to make out an expense account.

The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.

The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears – as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of...

I feel coming on a strange disease – humility.

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

Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.

Clear out 800,000 people and preserve it as a museum piece.

I think Ms. Monroe’s architecture is extremely good architecture.

A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches fifty, and a fool if he doesn’t drink afterward

the Jewel of the Orient.