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.

All the more I study Nature do I revere God, because Nature is all the body of God we will ever know.

I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artist's hand even were that magic hand in true place. It has been too far exploited by industrialism and science at expense to art and true religion.

Imitation is always insult--not flattery.

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

I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture.

The space within becomes the reality of the building.