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

It is where life is fundamental and free that men develop the vision needed to reveal the human soul in the blossoms it puts forth.

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

I wouldnt mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking.

If you tilt the whole country sideways, Los Angeles is the place where everything loose will fall.

Taste is a matter of ignorance. If you know what you are tasting, you don't have to taste.

True ornament is not a matter of prettifying externals. It is organic with the structure it adorns, whether a person, a building, or a park. At its best it is an emphasis of structure, a realization in graceful terms of the nature of that which is ornamented