Frank Lloyd Wright

“I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it.”

“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.”

“A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.”

“'Think simple' as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.”

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

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

“An idea is salvation by imagination.”

“To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.”

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

“Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.”

“The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.”

“Mechanization best serves mediocrity.”

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

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

“All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.”

“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.”

“The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.”

“Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.”

“Early in my career...I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility... I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I've never been sorry.”

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