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

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 best thing to do is go as far out as you can get... what you regard as 'too far' - and when others follow, as they will, move on

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.

Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title. - Virginia Woolf, from Jacob's Room Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

Television is bubble-gum for the mind.

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.