Less is only more where more is no good.

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

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

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

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

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.

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 like it.

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

An idea is salvation by imagination.

Freedom is from within.

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

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.

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.

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.

Space is the breath of art.

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

The space within becomes the reality of the building.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Mechanization best serves mediocrity.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

The truth is more important than the facts.