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

"It is where life is fundamental and free that men develop the vision needed to reveal the human soul in the blossoms …"

"Every great architect is — necessarily — a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, …"

"So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal."

"I'm no teacher. Never wanted to teach and don't believe in teaching an art. Science yes, business of course..but an a…"

"A free America, democratic in the sense that our forefathers intended it to be, means just this: individual freedom f…"

"No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should li…"

"The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines."

"I doubt if there is anything in the world uglier than a Midwestern city."

"Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them."