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

The outcome of the city will depend on the race between the automobile and the elevator, and anyone who bets on the elevator is crazy.

An expert is a man who has stopped thinking. Why should he think? He is an expert.

The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.

I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.

Man is a phase of nature, and only as he is related to nature does he matter, does he have any account whatever above the dust.

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.