Frank Lloyd Wright

Television is bubble-gum for the mind.

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.

Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.

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.

Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly. The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

Nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.

I do not believe in adding enrichment merely for the sake of enrichment. Unless it adds clearness to the enunciation of the theme, it is undesirable, for it is very little understood.

The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect.

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.

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.

'Think simple' as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

When we come to understand architecture as the essential nature of all harmonious structure we will see that it is the architecture of music that inspired Bach and Beethoven, the architecture of painting that is inspiring Picasso as it inspired Velasquez, that it is the architecture of life itself that is the inspiration of the great poets and philosophers.

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

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.

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.

The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest.

Love is the virtue of the Heart, Sincerity is the virtue of the Mind, Decision is the virtue of the Will, Courage is the virtue of the Spirit.

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

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

The space within becomes the reality of the building.