Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly, but take every building to pieces, and challenge every feature. Learn to distinguish the curious from the beautiful. Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind. 'Think simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

I don't build a house without predicting the end of the present social order.

I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.

The room within is the great fact about the building.

So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal.

Nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.