An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.

No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.

Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.

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.

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

Taste is a matter of ignorance. If you know what you are tasting, you don't have to taste.

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