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Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.
Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.
Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it.
Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture.
Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly. The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it.
An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.
Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
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.
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 only body of God that we shall ever see.
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
Less is only more where more is no good.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
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