Frank Lloyd Wright

The human race has today the means for annihilating itself--either in a fit of complete lunacy, i.e., in a big war, by a brief fit of destruction, or by a careless handling of chemistry, as if one god playing with another god's chemistry set on the landing table of a rented house that might some day explode it, or both.

I wouldn't mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of eating a huge, undigestible meal of chopped pheasants and cream sauce.

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.

If it didn't look like a duck, walk like a duck, quack like a duck, it was probably not a duck.

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.

The reality of a building is the space, not the walls.

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.

A great man is one who leaves a gash in time.

I doubt if there is anything in existence more valuable to a man than his education.

The sun never knew how great it was until it hit the side of a building.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, spirit and harmony throughout the interior of the building.

Freedom is from within.

The taller the building, the lower the morals.

An idea is salvation by imagination.

The interior of the house is the important thing.

Why esteem art less than life? Why do we not admire in the same way the builder or the gardener? Why do we not admire as much the cook?

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