36 quotes
American architect (1867-1959)
“No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.”
"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."
on Nature
"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature."
on Faith
"An idea is salvation by imagination"
on Imagination
"Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities."
on Life
"If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger."
on Technology
"An idea is salvation by imagination."
"The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization."
on Art
"Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age."
"Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual."
"The space within becomes the reality of the building."
on Philosophy
"Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now."
"The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope."
on Time
"Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change."
on Wisdom
"The thing always happens that you really believe in and the belief in a thing makes it happen."
on Inspirational
"I know the price of success: dedication hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen."
on Success
"A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working."
on Work
"Early in life I had to choose between arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change."
on Identity
"Television is chewing gum for the eyes."
on Humor
"There is nothing more uncommon than common sense."
"I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters."
