When we come to understand architecture as the essential nature of all harmonious structure we will see that it is the architecture of music that inspired Bach and Beethoven, the architecture of painting that is inspiring Picasso as it inspired Velasquez, that it is the architecture of life itself that is the inspiration of the great poets and philosophers.

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet.

You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.

Imitation is always insult--not flattery.

If it sells, it's art.

Youth is not an age thing. It's a quality. Once you've had it, you never lose 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.