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.

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet.

They turned the country up on its side, and everything loose fell into California.

Nature is never other than serene even in a thunderstorm.

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.

For America today organic architecture interprets (will eventually build) this local embodiment of human freedom. This natural architecture seeks spaciousness, grace and openness; lightness and strength so completely balanced and logical that it is a new integrity.

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.