Frank Lloyd Wright

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

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

Mechanization best serves mediocrity.

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.

Space is the breath of art.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.