Frank Lloyd Wright
I wouldn't mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anarchronism, almost the equivalent of smoking.
I think Ms. Monroe's architecture is extremely good architecture.
I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture.
I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artist's hand even were that magic hand in true place. It has been too far exploited by industrialism and science at expense to art and true religion.
I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.
I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
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.
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
Get the habit of analysis- analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.
Freedom is from within.
Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy.
Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall.
Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.
Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.