A box is more a coffin for the human spirit than an inspiration.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
Beautiful buildings are more than scientific. They are true organisms, spiritually conceived; works of art, using the best technology by inspiration rather than the idiosyncrasies of mere taste or any averaging by the committee mind.
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.