Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

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

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

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

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

Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.

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.

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.

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

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