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

A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.

The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect.

The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect.

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

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.