All I learned from Eliel Saarinen was how to make out an expense account

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.

I attend the greatest of all Churches. I put a capital N on Nature, and call it my Church.

I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture.

I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.

Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own earth