We should learn from the snail: it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional.

The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.

Beautiful buildings are more than scientific. They are true organisms, spiritually conceived; works of art, using the best technology by inspiration rather than the idiosyncrasies of mere taste or any averaging by the committee mind.

When anyone becomes an authority, that is the end of him as far as development is concerned.

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

The two most important tools an architect has are the eraser in the drawing room and the sledge hammer on the construction site.

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.