We've been fighting from the beginning for organic architecture. That is, architecture where the whole is to the part as the part is to the whole, and where the nature of materials, the nature of the purpose, the nature of the entire performance becomes a necessity-architecture of democracy.

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

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.

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.

I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture.

Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.