The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you're an atheist, pretend how God would do it.

The outcome of the city will depend on the race between the automobile and the elevator, and anyone who bets on the elevator is crazy.

Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.

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

Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.

Early in my career...I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility... I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I've never been sorry.

No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.