Frank Lloyd Wright

"No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other."

"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 …"