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

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.

A man with a machine may murder or enslave millions, whereas it used to take at least thousands to murder millions. And the man behind the machine has nothing on his conscience.

An idea is salvation by imagination.

Art is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use.

Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.

Architecture is life, or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or ever will be lived.