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"Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world."

"The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind."

"Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual."

"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."

"We should have a system of economics that is structure, that is organic tools. We do not have it. We are all hanging by our eyebrows from skyhooks economically, just as we are architecturally."

"Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves."

"The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings."
Art

"I wouldn't mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anarchronism, almost the equivalent of smoking."

"The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty."

"Simplicity and repose are qualities that measure the true value of any work of art."

"Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities."

"Less is only more where more is no good."

"Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral."
Business

"If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger."
Technology

"Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change."

"An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site."

"True ornament is not a matter of prettifying externals. It is organic with the structure it adorns, whether a person, a building, or a park."

"The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it."

"Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world. (1939)"

"I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters."

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