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The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.

The long-run rate of growth of output per head is determined by the rate of technical progress and the rate of growth of the labor force.

The most important of all the causes that determine the economic progress of a nation is the character of its people.

I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do.

I like complexity and contradiction in architecture.

I got my ideas from other people. I'm a thief. I'm a magpie. I steal from everybody.

I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art, it must be built on a foundation of necessity.

The purpose of architecture is to shelter and enhance man's life on earth and to fulfill his belief in the nobility of his existence.

Architecture is not just a question of engineering or construction, but of imagination, of poetry, of beauty.

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed, and in the end must be unmeasurable.

God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is, at least for me, an abuse of paper.

God is in the details.

Our ultimate goal, though distant, is the complete building.

The architect is the organizer of the world.

The evolution of culture is synonymous with the removal of ornament from utilitarian objects.

There is no such thing as a new art, but only new artists.

Form ever follows function.

There are two ways of being truthful: one is to reproduce the object as it is, the other is to reproduce it as it ought to be.

All ornament should consist of enrichment of the essential construction of the building.

Architecture is the art of building beautifully.