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

Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

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

Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

An idea is salvation by imagination.

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

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

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

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.

A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.

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

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

All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.