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.

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

The two most important tools an architect has are the eraser in the drawing room and the sledge hammer on the construction site.

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

Love of an idea is the love of God.

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.