Consider everything in the nature of a hanging fixture a weakness, and naked radiators an abomination.

I attend the greatest of all Churches. I put a capital N on Nature, and call it my Church.

When we come to understand architecture as the essential nature of all harmonious structure we will see that it is the architecture of music that inspired Bach and Beethoven, the architecture of painting that is inspiring Picasso as it inspired Velasquez, that it is the architecture of life itself that is the inspiration of the great poets and philosophers.

Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.

Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal.

The two most important tools an architect has are the eraser in the drawing room and the sledge hammer on the construction site.