Frank Lloyd Wright

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

No stream rises higher than its source

It's easier to make changes with a pencil than a wrecking bar.

I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

We do not learn so much by our successes as we learn by failures - our own and others! Especially if we see the failures properly corrected.

Nature is all the body of God we mortals will ever see.

The best friend of earth of man is the tree.

If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation

So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal.

I never design a building before I've seen the site and met the people who will be using it.

Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.

A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.

I attend the greatest of all Churches. I put a capital N on Nature, and call it my Church.

The scientist has marched in and taken the place of the poet. But one day somebody will find the solution to the problems of the world and remember, it will be a poet, not a scientist.

Architecture is life, or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or ever will be lived.

True ornament is not a matter of prettifying externals. It is organic with the structure it adorns, whether a person, a building, or a park. At its best it is an emphasis of structure, a realization in graceful terms of the nature of that which is ornamented

We've been fighting from the beginning for organic architecture. That is, architecture where the whole is to the part as the part is to the whole, and where the nature of materials, the nature of the purpose, the nature of the entire performance becomes a necessity-architecture of democracy.

I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artist's hand even were that magic hand in true place. It has been too far exploited by industrialism and science at expense to art and true religion.

The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you're an atheist, pretend how God would do it.

The best friend on earth of man is the tree: When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources of the earth.