If you foolishly ignore beauty, then you will soon find yourself without it.

The cultural influences in our country are like the floo floo bird. I am referring to the peculiar and especial bird who always flew backward. To keep the wind out of its eyes? No. Just because it didn't give a darn where it was going, but just had to see where it had been.

I never design a building before I've seen the site and met the people who will be using it.

I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.

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

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.

Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.