I'm against war. Always have been, always will be. And everything connected with it, is anathema to me. I have never considered it necessary.

Art is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use.

To me, young has no meaning. It's something you can do nothing about, nothing at all. But youth is a quality. And if you have it, you never lose it.

So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal.

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

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

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.