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.

What I like best about San Francisco is San Francisco.

Architecture is for the young. If our teenagers don't get architecture - if they are not inspired, (then) we won't have the architecture that we must have if this country is going to be beautiful.

Art is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use.

If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.

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.