Frank Lloyd Wright

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet.

Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.

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.

A box is more a coffin for the human spirit than an inspiration.

We have no longer an outside and an inside as two separate things. Now the outside may come inside and the inside may and does go outside. They are of each other. Form and function thus become one in design and execution if the nature of materials and method and purpose are all in unison.

Individuality realized is the supreme attainment of the human soul, the master-master's work of art. Individuality is sacred.

Early in life, I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change

Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It is at least the geometric pattern of things, of life, of the human and social world. It is at best that magic framework of reality that we sometimes touch upon when we use the word order.

The two most important tools an architect has are the eraser in the drawing room and the sledge hammer on the construction site.

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

So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal and the teaching so much needed if we are to see the whole of life, and to now serve the whole of life, holding no traditions essential to the great TRADITION. Nor cherishing any preconceived form fixing upon us either past, present or future, but-instead-exalting the simple laws of common sense-or of super-sense if you prefer-determining form by way of the nature of materials.

If you foolishly ignore beauty, then you will soon find yourself without it.

The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears - as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Space. The continual becoming: invisible fountain from which all rhythms flow and to which they must pass. Beyond time or infinity

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.

Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.

All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.

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

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

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