A civilization is only a way of life. A culture is the way of making that way of life beautiful. So culture is your office here in America, and as no stream can rise higher than its source, so you can give no more or better to architecture than you are. So why not go to work on yourselves, to make yourselves, in quality, what you would have your buildings be?

It's easier to make changes with a pencil than a wrecking bar.

If the paintings are too large, cut them in half!

Wherever human life is concerned, the unnatural stricture of excessive verticality cannot stand against more natural horizontality.

The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest.

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.