Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual |
Love is the greatest virtue of the heart. Sincerity is the greatest virtue of the mind. Determination is the greatest virtue of the will. Courage is the greatest virtue of the spirit. |
Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture |
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. (1939) |
Mechanization best serves mediocrity. |
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 |
New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity. |
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. |
Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. |
Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now. |
Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art. |