Frank Lloyd Wright

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

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

"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."

"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."

"Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities."

"God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see."

"Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual."

"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 buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground."

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

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

"Space is the breath of art."

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

"Television is chewing gum for the eyes."

"The space within becomes the reality of the building."