Everything Quotes

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

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.

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

Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.

No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.

The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.

Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

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

Mechanization best serves mediocrity.

I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.

No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.

Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

Freedom is from within.

Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.

The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect.

A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.

An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

'Think simple' as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.

The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.

The space within becomes the reality of the building.

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

I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it.

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall.

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.

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.

All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.

You just do what you can and you have as much fun as possible.

I was a thug.

People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear.

The Internet is just another experiment showing us more sides of us.

Boys do cry, but I don't think I shed a tear for a good chunk of my teenage years.

Art's everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.

I've always wanted to make a career in the arts, and I think that my only hope at doing that is to make it more about the work.

I don't ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing 'cos that's just... that's just telling yourself a lie.

I have no delusions about my likability in every scenario. I know that in order to get things done the way you want them, oftentimes your position will be unpopular.

The work is the work. The work is not me.

Sometimes I'm fascinated with how famous my work could be while I'm not so famous.

Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story, but music sometimes, just music itself, can turn into more of a maths problem. I guess everything in life is a math problem, but it can be more about an empirical route to getting the symmetry that you want, and this vibe, sonically.

A friend of mine jokes that I have a painstaking royalty complex. Like maybe I was a duke in a past life.