The outcome of the city will depend on the race between the automobile and the elevator, and anyone who bets on the elevator is crazy.

We've been fighting from the beginning for organic architecture. That is, architecture where the whole is to the part as the part is to the whole, and where the nature of materials, the nature of the purpose, the nature of the entire performance becomes a necessity-architecture of democracy.

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

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.

We do not learn so much by our successes as we learn by failures - our own and others! Especially if we see the failures properly corrected.

Entering into the spirit of this interior, you will discover the best possible atmosphere in which to show fine paintings or listen to music. It is this atmosphere that seems to me most lacking in our art galleries, museums, music halls and theaters.

Less is more only when more is too much.