Frank Lloyd Wright

“A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.”

“An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.”

“The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.”

“Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.”

“Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.”

“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.”

“Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.”

“Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.”

“Space is the breath of art.”

“The architect should strive continually to simplify the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.”

“Mechanization best serves mediocrity.”

“Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.”

“Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.”

“Freedom is from within.”

“A free America... 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.”

“TV is chewing gum for the eyes.”

“I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.”

“God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said 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.”

“Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.”

“Less is only more where more is no good.”

“A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.”

“Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.”

“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.”

“The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.”