Frank Lloyd Wright

Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.

The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.

Mechanization best serves mediocrity.

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

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

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

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.

The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.

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

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.

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.

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

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.

Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.

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

I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.

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

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.

Freedom is from within.

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.