If capitalism is fair then unionism must be. If men and women have a right to capitalize their ideas and the resources of their country, then that implies the right of men and women to capitalize their labor.

If you tilt the whole country sideways, Los Angeles is the place where everything loose will fall.

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Why should architecture or objects of art in the machine age, just because they are made by machines, have to resemble machinery?

When anyone becomes an authority, that is the end of him as far as development is concerned.

Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy.

The measure of a man's culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more.

The baby boomers are out there, they've had a lot of good years of earnings, they've inherited wealth. They are buying trophy homes and will be for years. We are one of those places people dream of. They come here to buy a piece of that dream.

Entering into the spirit of this interior, you will discover the best possible atmosphere in which to show fine paintings or listen to music. It is this atmosphere that seems to me most lacking in our art galleries, museums, music halls and theaters.

We've been fighting from the beginning for organic architecture. That is, architecture where the whole is to the part as the part is to the whole, and where the nature of materials, the nature of the purpose, the nature of the entire performance becomes a necessity-architecture of democracy.

Taste is a matter of ignorance. If you know what you are tasting, you don't have to taste.

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

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.

Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.

Nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.

I think Miss Monroe as architecture is extremely good architecture, and she's a very natural actress, and a very good one.

Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.

If it sells, it's art.

The room within is the great fact about the building.

I'll bridge these hills with graceful arches.