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.

Greed in human nature may now come near to enslaving all humanity by means of the Machine - so fast and far has progress gone with it. This will be evident to anyone who stops to study the modern mechanistic Moloch and takes time to view it in its larger aspects.

So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal.

I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture.

Science can give us only the tools in the box, these mechanical miracles that it has already given us. But of what use to us are miraculous tools until we have mastered the humane, cultural use of them? We do not want to live in a world where the machine has mastered the man; we want to live in a world where man has mastered the machine.

Space is the breath of art.

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