When anyone becomes an authority, that is the end of him as far as development is concerned.

Taste is a matter of ignorance. If you know what you are tasting, you don't have to taste.

Early in my career...I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility... I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I've never been sorry.

Why should architecture or objects of art in the machine age, just because they are made by machines, have to resemble machinery?

We boast the highest standard of living when it's only the biggest.

Beautiful buildings are more than scientific. They are true organisms, spiritually conceived; works of art, using the best technology by inspiration rather than the idiosyncrasies of mere taste or any averaging by the committee mind.

A civilization is only a way of life. A culture is the way of making that way of life beautiful. So culture is your office here in America, and as no stream can rise higher than its source, so you can give no more or better to architecture than you are. So why not go to work on yourselves, to make yourselves, in quality, what you would have your buildings be?