The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

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

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.

A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.

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.

Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.