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

The longer I lived, the more beautiful life became - despite my personal tragedies, the fire, despite my third wife and her dreadful taste. My dear Olgivanna, she insisted on replacing the lovely canvas and wooden trusses at Taliesin West with steel supports and pink frosted glass. Well, I was too old to care by then. What I decided early on was this: If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly.

We should learn from the snail: it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional.

Architecture is essentially Human; it is the Human spirit manifesting itself. For when a Man builds, there, you've got him; you know exactly what, who and how that Man is.

Taste is a matter of ignorance. If you know what you are tasting, you don't have to taste.

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.