“Simplicity and Repose are qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.”

Less is more only when more is too much.

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

The Machine is Intellect mastering the drudgery of the earth that the plastic art may live; that the margin of leisure and strength by which man’s life upon earth can be made beautiful, may immeasurably widen; its function ultimately to emancipate human expression!

Early in my career, I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility… I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I’ve never been sorry.

A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.

The primitive ideals of centralization are now largely self-defeating. Human crucifixion by vertically on the now static checkerboard of the old city is pattern already in agony; yet for lack of any organic planning it is going on and on-not living, but rather hanging by its eyebrows from its nervous system.

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.

The belief in a thing makes it happen.

Life is truth.

Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme.

Nature is my manifestation of God.

The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you’re an atheist, pretend how God would do it.

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.

I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.

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

There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say ‘he feels deeply, he feels tenderly’.

We have nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore- except to make our lives into a work of art.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Well, art is art, isn’t it? Still, on the other hand, water is water!

Taking time for your art is taking time for yourself.

The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.

Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.