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„All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.“
„Nature is all the body of God we mortals will ever see.“
„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.“
„The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.“
„The scientist has marched in and taken the place of the poet. But one day somebody will find the solution to the problems of the world and remember, it will be a poet, not a scientist.“
„I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artist’s hand even were that magic hand in true place. It has been too far exploited by industrialism and science at expense to art and true religion.“
„New York is the biggest mouth in the world. It appears to be prime example of the herd instinct, leading the universal urban conspiracy to beguile man from his birthright (the good ground), to hang him by his eyebrows from skyhooks above hard pavement, to crucify him, sell him, or be sold by him.“
„God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature and it has been said often by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And, I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.“
„The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears — as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.“
„The truth is more important than the facts.“
„Clear out 800,000 people and preserve it as a museum piece.“
„So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal.“
„Architecture is life, or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or ever will be lived.“
„The-Shadow-of-the-Wall–Primitive Instincts Still Alive“
„I doubt if there is anything in the world uglier than a Midwestern city.“
„Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them.“
„A free America, democratic in the sense that our forefathers intended it to be, 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.“
„Every great architect is — necessarily — a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.“
„Here I am, Philip, am I indoors or am I out? Do I take my hat off or keep it on?“
„New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it.“
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