Frank Lloyd Wright

I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.

If it sells, it's art.

A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

An idea is salvation by imagination

Freedom is from within.

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.

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

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.

Mechanization best serves mediocrity.

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 him like it.

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

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

An idea is salvation by imagination.