Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation

The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.

Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.

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

You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.

A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.

You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.

We should learn from the snail: it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional.

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.

Our self- development is all about conquering and recreating ourselves

The greater the fruit a trees bears, the greater the number of stones thrown at it.

Mothers are the necessity of invention.

Being in the studio is a really romantic time.

Like a mermaid rising from an ocean of paper, the girl emerged across the room.

To practice magic is to be a quack; to know magic is to be a sage.

Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.

Government should work to insure the rights of the individual, not plot to take them away.

Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal.

I feel like I am always the one tearing everything up and forever sewing it back together.