Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly.

Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own earth

Early in life, I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change

You can't make an architect. But you can open the doors and windows toward the light as you see it.

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. The size of the project means little in art, beyond the money matter. It is the quality of the character that really counts.

I think Miss Monroe as architecture is extremely good architecture, and she's a very natural actress, and a very good one.

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.