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

The scientist has marched in and taken the place of the poet. But one day somebody will find the solution to the problems of the world and remember, it will be a poet, not a scientist.

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.

Architecture is the frame of human existence. We must dedicate this existence more to beauty. For if poetic principle has deserted us, how long are we going to last?

No house should ever be on any hill... It should be of the hill.

A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.

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.