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

“There are hundreds of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings around the United States and in other countries, too. Wright lived into his 90s, and one of his most famous buildings, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, was completed just before his death. Wright buildings look like Wright buildings - that is their paradox.”

“The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.”

“Space is the breath of art.”

“The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.”

“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.”

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

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

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