Frank Lloyd Wright

A house is more than a machine for living in. It is a work of art.

The reality of the building does not consist of the four walls and the roof but in the space enclosed by them.

Buildings, too, are children of earth and sun.

The architect should be a man of vision, a man of imagination, a man of poetry.

Truth is life. Beauty is truth. Truth is beauty.

No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.

The building is a child of the site.

The architect is the master of the machine, not its slave.

Integrity has no need of rules.

The architect's work is to make life more beautiful.

The ideal of organic architecture is to make a building that is part of its environment, not merely placed upon it.

The building should be an expression of the life lived within it.

The machine is the architect's tool, not his master.

Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth.

The building should be a natural growth from the ground.

The architect must be a master of all trades, and a master of none.

The building should be a poem, a song, a symphony.

The architect's work is to make the world a better place.

The building should be a friend to man.

The architect must be a philosopher, a poet, a prophet.