If you would see how interwoven it is in the warp and woof of civilization ... go at night-fall to the top of one of the down-town steel giants and you may see how in the image of material man, at once his glory and his menace, is this thing we call a city.

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

Consider everything in the nature of a hanging fixture a weakness, and naked radiators an abomination.

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.

All I learned from Eliel Saarinen was how to make out an expense account

Imitation is always insult--not flattery.

The two most important tools an architect has are the eraser in the drawing room and the sledge hammer on the construction site.