Taste is a matter of ignorance. If you know what you are tasting, you don't have to taste.

I do not believe in adding enrichment merely for the sake of enrichment. Unless it adds clearness to the enunciation of the theme, it is undesirable, for it is very little understood.

So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal.

I'll bridge these hills with graceful arches

I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.

A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.