Frank Lloyd Wright

The truth is more important than the facts.

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

Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.

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.

Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.

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

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

An idea is salvation by imagination.

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

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.

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

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.

Less is only more where more is no good.

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.

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.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

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.

Freedom is from within.