An idea is salvation by imagination.

I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.

So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal and the teaching so much needed if we are to see the whole of life, and to now serve the whole of life, holding no traditions essential to the great TRADITION. Nor cherishing any preconceived form fixing upon us either past, present or future, but-instead-exalting the simple laws of common sense-or of super-sense if you prefer-determining form by way of the nature of materials.

San Francisco is the only city I can think of that can survive all the things you people are doing to it and still look beautiful.

I wouldnt mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking.

The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you're an atheist, pretend how God would do it.

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.