It does not matter whether one paints a picture, writes a poem, or carves a statue - simplicity is the mark of a master-hand.

[At first sight of the Acropolis:] It's beige! My color!

When I am no longer being copied, I shall know that I am a back number. ... the fear of being copied is often the characteristic of the meager imagination.

A house should be a synthesis of comfort, practicality, and tradition.

There never has been a house so bad that it couldn't be made over into something worthwhile.

I know of nothing more significant than the awakening of men and women throughout our country to the desire to improve their houses. Call it what you will - awakening, development, American Renaissance - it is a most startling and promising condition of affairs.

I am going to make everything around me beautiful - that will be my life.