Architecture is essentially Human; it is the Human spirit manifesting itself. For when a Man builds, there, you've got him; you know exactly what, who and how that Man is.

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.

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

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.