Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.

The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.

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

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.

You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.

A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.

You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.

We should learn from the snail: it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional.

No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.

It is so wrong to run away from your purpose – you may be running away with a solution that may solve the world’s problems or save mankind.

You may need to change your dreams.

Beauty isn't made of sugar.

Only the Irish working class remains as the incorruptible inheritors of the fight for freedom in Ireland.

Having things organized is for small-minded people. Genius controls chaos.

If you do not believe in co-operation, look what happens to a wagon that loses a wheel.

The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.

The best lie is often one too ridiculous to be taken for a lie.

You can work next to a guy for months without even knowing his name.