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.
The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.
Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
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.
Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.
Less is only more where more is no good.
Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.
Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.
Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it.
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.
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.