How is he made? Oftentimes bitter, sometimes sweet, seldom even wide-awake, architectural criticism of “the modern” wholly lacks inspiration or any qualification because it lacks the appreciation that is love: the flame essential to profound...

The scientist has marched in and taken the place of the poet. But one day somebody will find the solution to the problems of the world and remember, it will be a poet, not a...

TV — chewing gum for the eyes.

The city has been incredibly capable of reinventing itself, with shorter and shorter cycles.

The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas

If it sells, it’s art.

We’re a nice team when all of us are moving.

I’m so proud of this team.

Philosophy is to the mind of the architect as eyesight to his steps. The Term ‘genius’ when applied to him simply means a man who understands what others only know about. A poet, artist or...

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

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

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

This looks like a really good suburban project dropped into an urban setting.

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.

An idea is salvation by imagination.

We wanted them to have to shoot over us.

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.

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

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

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.

A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.

The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind

It was kind of a lackluster game. We did what we needed to do to win.

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed… a race for rent.

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

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

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain...

Space is the breath of art.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

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

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world. (1939)

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

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

An expert is a man who has stopped thinking – he knows!

Something bad happened. It doesn’t have anything to do with what they were doing.

I’m all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let’s start with typewriters.

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

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

Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

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

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.

Love is the greatest virtue of the heart.Sincerity is the greatest virtue of the mind.Determination is the greatest virtue of the will.Courage is the greatest virtue of the spirit.

That project has some challenges, … The good news is it has some of the only large contiguous spaces downtown.

Early in my career…I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility… I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I’ve never been sorry.

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

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

The room within is the great fact about the building.

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.