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"Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities."
Quoted in his obituary, April 9, 1959

"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."

"Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles."

"If it [automation] keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the pushbutton finger."
NY Times, November 27, 1955

"Television: Chewing gum for the eyes." - - "Television is bubble gum for the mind"

"An idea is salvation by imagination."

"The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes"

"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"
             An Autobiography, 1932
                  Alluded to in "Genius & the Mobocracy" pg. 62 "From the first, 'of -the-thing-not-on-it' was inimical to the thought and the way of our times..."

"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."
NY Times Magazine, October 4, 1953

on Boston - "Clear out 800,000 people and preserve it as a museum piece."
NY Times, November 27, 1955

on New York - "Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey."
NY Times, November 27, 1955

on Pittsburgh - "Abandon it."
NY Times, November 27, 1955

"Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest
arrogance and have seen no occasion to change."
Recalled on his death, April 8, 1959

On Other Architects:

All I learned from Eliel Saarinen was how to make out an expense account (after returning from a south american trip with saarinen)

Well now that he's finished one building he'll go write four books about it (Corbusier)

on Philip Johnson’s glass house - "Here I am, Philip, am I indoors or am I out? Do I take my hat
           off or keep it on?"
              Architectural Digest, Nov. 1985

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