Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet.

Wherever human life is concerned, the unnatural stricture of excessive verticality cannot stand against more natural horizontality.

The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.

Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.

The outside of any building may now come inside and the inside go outside, each seems as part of the other. Continuity, plasticity, and all the new simplicity the imply have at last come home.

I find that government can be a kind of gangsterism and is in Russia. And is likely to be in America if we don't take care of ourselves pretty carefully.