What you newspaper and magazine writers, who work in rabbit time, don't understand is that the practice of architecture has to be measured in elephant time.

The purpose of architecture is to shelter and enhance man's life on earth and to fulfill his belief in the nobility of his existence.

To me the drawn language is a very revealing language: one can see in a few lines whether a man is really an architect.

Function influence but does not dictate form

I wanted to clear up the slum of legs… I wanted to make the chair all one thing again.

Confusion comes from trying to amalgamate several conflicting ideas.

Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - a chair in a room a room in a house a house in an environment an environment in a city plan.

The only way to find out if you're immortal is to make it to the end of time and look around to see if you're still alive. Until you've done that, all you know is that you haven't died yet.

The only time you've been under me is when I've been inside of you and even then, you're never truly under me. I always remain under you.

You will find the greatest happiness in letting yourself be.

I let myself flop - so gently, so slowly - into my one real chair and tried to make myself understand that I was on the doorstep of the universe.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtures are of no avail.

We must be challenged to improve, and adversity is the challenger.

The divine chemistry works in the subsoil.

Any two people have different ideas of what is important.

People are not soured by misfortune, but by the reception they meet with in it.