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.

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

Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.

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.

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

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.

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

The truth is more important than the facts.

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

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.