The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.

The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.

Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly.

I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.

Space is the breath of art.

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

The measure of a man's culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more.