Space is the breath of art.

• If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
• 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.
• Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
• 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.
• Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
• A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.
• Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
• An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.
• The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.