Frank Lloyd Wright

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

"Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change."

"“The-Shadow-of-the-Wall–Primitive Instincts Still Alive"

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

"The scientist has marched in and taken the place of the poet. But one day somebody will find the solution to the problems of the world and remember, it will be a poet, not a scientist."

"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 ar…"

"If you would see how interwoven it is in the warp and woof of civilization … go at night-fall to the top of one of the down-town steel giants and you may see how in the image of material man, at once …"

"Architecture is life, or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or ever will be lived."