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.

Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.

It is where life is fundamental and free that men develop the vision needed to reveal the human soul in the blossoms it puts forth.

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.

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.

To know what to leave out and what to put in; just where and just how, ah, that is to have been educated in knowledge of simplicity.

True ornament is not a matter of prettifying externals. It is organic with the structure it adorns, whether a person, a building, or a park. At its best it is an emphasis of structure, a realization in graceful terms of the nature of that which is ornamented