Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. The size of the project means little in art, beyond the money matter. It is the quality of the character that really counts.

We boast the highest standard of living when it's only the biggest.

Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme.

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.

San Francisco is the only city I can think of that can survive all the things you people are doing to it and still look beautiful.