Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

I never design a building before I've seen the site and met the people who will be using it.

They turned the country up on its side, and everything loose fell into California.

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.

The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.

Greed in human nature may now come near to enslaving all humanity by means of the Machine - so fast and far has progress gone with it. This will be evident to anyone who stops to study the modern mechanistic Moloch and takes time to view it in its larger aspects.

Space. The continual becoming: invisible fountain from which all rhythms flow and to which they must pass. Beyond time or infinity