Frank Lloyd Wright

Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.

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.

The truth is more important than the facts.

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.

Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.

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

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

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

An idea is salvation by imagination.

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

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

Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.