Frank Lloyd Wright

“A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make h...”

“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.”

“Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.”

“Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.”

“Less is only more where more is no good.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Mechanization best serves mediocrity.”

“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...”

“'Think simple' as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.”

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

“An idea is salvation by imagination.”

“I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.”

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