MondayMay 18, 2026
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Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
No house should ever be on any hill or on anything. It should be of the hill, belonging to it, so hill and house could live together each the happier for the other.
Early in life, I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.
They turned the country up on its side, and everything loose fell into California.
The thing you really believe in always happens ... and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
The doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines.
Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
The truth is more important than the facts.
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
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