The measure of a man's culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more.

Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation

A man with a machine may murder or enslave millions, whereas it used to take at least thousands to murder millions. And the man behind the machine has nothing on his conscience.

Why should architecture or objects of art in the machine age, just because they are made by machines, have to resemble machinery?

The dynamic ideal we call democracy, gradually growing up in the human heart for two-thousand five hundred years, at least, has now every opportunity to found the natural democratic state in these United States of America by way of natural economic order and a natural, or organic, architecture.

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.

The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas.