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

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

The dynamic ideal we call democracy, gradually growing up in the human heart for two-thousand five hundred years, at least, has now every opportunity to found the natural democratic state in these United States of America by way of natural economic order and a natural, or organic, architecture.

The tall modern office building is the machine pure and simple...the engine, the motor and the battleship the works of the century.

Imitation is always insult--not flattery.

The outside of any building may now come inside and the inside go outside, each seems as part of the other. Continuity, plasticity, and all the new simplicity the imply have at last come home.

We should have a system of economics that is structure that is organic tools. We do not have it. We are all hanging by our eyebrows from skyhooks economically, just as we are architecturally.